The Romantic Era: 102 Selections from Symphonies, Ballets, Operas, and Piano Literature for Piano Solo (World's Great Classical Music)

The Romantic Era is an Easy to Intermediate piano solo sheet music collection featuring 102 selections from 19th-century Romantic symphonies, ballets, operas, and piano literature. Designed for pianists exploring Romantic classical repertoire, the collection brings together music by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and other major composers.

The music is presented as faithful piano transcriptions in clean, newly engraved standard notation. The collection spans intimate piano miniatures, dances, lyrical works, orchestral themes, ballet music, concerto excerpts, and symphonic passages, while capsule biographies introduce the composers represented. Its wide-ranging repertoire supports learning, regular practice, repertoire building, musical expression, and performance while allowing pianists to experience contrasting Romantic styles within one substantial collection.

Song List

Avalanche * Polovetzian Dance * Lullaby Wiegenlied * Symphony No. 4 Op. 98 First Movement Excerpt * Symphony No. 1 Op. 68 Fourth Movement Excerpt * Symphony No. 7 Second Movement Excerpt * Mazurka in E Minor Op. 17 No. 2 * Mazurka in G Minor Op. 67 No. 2 * Mazurka in F Major Op. 86 No. 3 * Polonaise in G Minor Op. Posthumous * Prelude in A Major Op. 28 No. 7 * Prelude in B Minor Op. 28 No. 6 * Prelude in C Minor Op. 28 No. 20 * Prelude in E Minor Op. 28 No. 4 * Waltz in B Minor Op. 69 No. 2 * Waltz in F Minor Op. 70 No. 2 * Nocturne in C-sharp Minor Op. Posthumous * Panis angelicus * Funeral March of a Marionette Themes * Album Leaf * Cradle Song * Elves' Dance * Grandmother's Minuet Op. 68 No. 2 * In the Hall of the Mountain King * Waltz * Watchman's Song Op. 12 No. 3 * March Op. 101 No. 1 * Slumber Song Op. 101 No. 6 * The Fair Op. 101 No. 8 * Prelude in C Minor Op. 119 No. 25 * The Tolling Bell Op. 125 No. 8 * Etude in C Major Op. 47 No. 19 * Song of May Op. 45 No. 5 * and more.

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