Despite the difficult conditions in the Bohemian lands during and after the Thirty Years’ War in the first half of the 17th century, the Baroque style gradually began to develop, despite being slightly behind the rest of Europe. Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover all the wonderful Czech Baroque Music with Stretta today!
With the advent of the Baroque era, the Czech people were re-Catholicized by the Habsburgs. They built many Catholic churches, and these had to be filled with music. Church and organ music was at the centre of the work for almost all Czech composers of the time.
An important composer who was the driving force of the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque Period was poet and scholar Adam Václav Michna von Otradovic (1600*-1676). He tried to actively fight against the cultural decline in the period after the Battle of The White Mountain (1621), after which the majority of the Protestant intellectual and cultural elite fled the country. Through his tireless work, he created a new surge in Czech baroque music, and became a role model for future generations. Michna composed in the early Italian baroque style, but he also often used elements from the Renaissance. The vast majority of the 230 surviving works are sacred. In addition to Latin texts, he also set his own native Czech poetry to music.
An important high baroque figure is Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640-1693). He worked as a court trumpeter, organist and later as director of the court orchestra of the Bishop of Olomouc. He wrote both secular instrumental music, mainly for wind instruments, and sacred music. A total of around 120 compositions have been preserved. His style of composition is based on modal principles, complemented by rich melodies, with clear Moravian folk roots.
Pavel Vejvanovský was colleagues for two years in the Olomouc Chapel with the Austro-Czech composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704). However, he soon went to Salzburg, where he got a position as Kapellmeister of the archbishop’s court orchestra. He wrote mainly instrumental compositions, sonatas and sacred music.
The most important composer of the Baroque period is undoubtably Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). Zelenka trained in Prague, and then in 1710 moved to Dresden, where he spent his entire artistic life in the service of the royal court, first as a double bass player, and later as court composer. Due to the exceptional quality of his unconventional works, he is often compared to J. S. Bach. Zelenka devoted himself primarily to large-scale sacred vocal, instrumental works. Over 250 of his compositions have been preserved to this day.
aus: "Sonatae tam Aris, quam Aulis servientes"
Salzburg, 1676
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4558
Edition Schott
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 727605
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597339
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597343
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597351
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 5/6)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3490
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 7/8)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3656
Edition Schott
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 746754
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385700
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597340
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597360
aus: A second Set of Six Solos for a Violin and Violoncello with a Thourough Bass for the Harpsichord
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, parts, audio files
Item no.: 5657
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597362
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 754430
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597350
für 2 Violen d'amore und Basso continuo
for: 2 Violen d'amore und Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 760170
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597361
for: Trumpet or Cornet & Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1636940
for: Cornet (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597341
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.3/4)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3485
Edition Schott
for: Viola, basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 749943
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597353
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597355
Corona - Werkreihe für Kammerorchester
for: String orchestra
Streicherstimmensatz 3,3,2,3
Item no.: 783618
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597342
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597345
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597346
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597347
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 9/10)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3672
Edition Schott
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 749502
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.1/2)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3477
op. 51/2
for: 2 violins
Music score
Item no.: 732375
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597349
(Theme)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723360
Kreidler Guitar Studio
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582412
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597348
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597359
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378444
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597338
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 754327
for: Violin, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597352
for: 5 Blockflöten (SSATB), 2 Violinen, 2 Violen, Violoncello und Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 795510
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597357
Edition Schott
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Conductors score reduction
Item no.: 746752
Collection Marcel Lejeune
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733037
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597354
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597356
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597358
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