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.
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783765
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672675
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Horn 1
Item no.: 784714
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Single part Viola 1
Item no.: 783857
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672678
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641940
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 783773
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Horn 1
Item no.: 793573
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Single part(n)
Item no.: 237219
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Viola 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672679
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Violin 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672676
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Horn 2
Item no.: 784715
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Single part Tenor recorder
Item no.: 633128
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669160
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237218
Die Pauernkirchfahrt genandt, Werke für Streicher u. B. c.
Erstdruck
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Single part Viola 1
Item no.: 645836
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 365969
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Horn 2
Item no.: 793574
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644722
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669162
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Viola 4 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672680
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237220
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237216
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Clarino (trumpet) 1
Item no.: 1669165
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1669155
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 642065
Reihe Musica Retiosa
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 378264
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 245191
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 408600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 341572
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 558532
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218516
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: OB (FL) HRN STR (+ CEMB)
Score
Item no.: 227935
Weihnachtsoratorium (Erstdruck)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 657000
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: OB (FL) HRN STR (+ CEMB)
Set of parts
Item no.: 372071
for: Singstimme (A/B), 2 Violinen, [FL) Violoncello Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 475216
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 218509
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629912
Ausgabe Butz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 428868
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629910
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629911
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 558534
Ausgabe Butz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 428867
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