The turn of the 19th century saw the dawn of Romanticism. This artistic and cultural movement was constantly striving for new ideas and new beginnings, during a particularly turbulent time in social, political and natural history. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the romantic masters and their works today.
The reason and order of the classical period were balanced out in the romantic period by emotion and imagination. The word romanticism is derived from the French literary terms roman and romantique. Programme music uses melodies and instrumental colours to tell a story, to take the listener on a musical journey. The most prominent of all program music is undoubtedly the symphonic poem, created, explored and developed by composers such as Franz Liszt and Bedřich Smetana.
Compared to the Classical Period, the melodies of the romantic period became less and less regular and symmetrical, and the harmony more and more chromatic and dissonant. As the romantic period progressed, the possibilities of traditional tonality became more and more exhausted, and the beginning of the 20th century saw the departure from classical structure and form, and the movement towards modern and contemporary classical music.
In order to broaden the sound palate which set the mood and atmosphere for the romantic period, new instruments began to appear in the orchestra, and voices began to be deployed, choirs and soloists began to be introduced into traditional instrumental works. Throughout the 19th century, the fashion was expansion, both in music for Symphony Orchestra and in Choral Music, the forces grew and grew, far beyond the imagination of any of the classical composers of the previous century.
In the 19th century, Opera flourished, be it Italian verismo, French "Grand Opera", or Wagner’s new world of music theatre. The most important opera composers of the 19th century were Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jacques Offenbach, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Voice
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Choir score
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for: Piano
Music lesson book
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Marimba
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
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Evening Blessing from the Fairy-Tale Opera "Hänsel und Gretel"
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 356796
from Die Walküre
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738384
2nd Movement
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759095
from Nabucco
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759093
for: Cello, piano
Music score
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from Lakmé
for: Cello, piano
Music score
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Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205767
for: Piano
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 640833
from Coppélia
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722357
for: Flute, piano
Music score
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from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Violin, piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
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Bardenklänge
Volume 4
Guitar Works (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
for: Classical guitar
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 119062
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
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Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Choir
Buch
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Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Clarinet, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
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Volume 1 Clarinette
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Music score, online audio
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Organ score
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for: Piano
Music lesson book
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello [3 violins, cello]
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
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