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.
for: Horn (E-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292537
for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292527
Klassik
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1539619
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 655822
für zwei Violen d'amore und Basso continuo
Cembalostimme ausgesetzt von Paul Hindemith
for: 2 viole d'amore, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680884
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568594
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
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568579
Edition Schott
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 746754
für 3 Flöten (Blockflöten AAT)
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 225740
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 281612
Debkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 127~Dtoe 127
for: Baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 103511
for: Euphonium, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292533
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385700
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292545
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292540
for: Tuba, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292532
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292529
Streichorchester
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Trumpet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 589449
From 12 Heroic Marches
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 686120
für Viola solo
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 409147
Edition Schott
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 281731
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 382699
for: TRP 2 VL 2 VA BC
Item no.: 247281
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913546
Erstdruck 1977
Diletto Musicale – Doblingers Reihe alter Musik
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 282595
für Viola, Streicher und Basso continuo
Quellenpublikationen aus dem Archiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Bd. 14
for: Viola, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 682532
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597340
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568576
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597360
für Violine und Orchester
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682762
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
für Trompete, 2 Violinen, 2 Violen und Bc.
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: Trumpet, strings, organ
Item no.: 262283
Wer auf Gott den Herrn vertraut
for: Voice (alto), string orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 777438
for: 2 trumpets, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1026829
Flötenmusik der Mannheimer Schule Heft 1
for: Flute, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 229373
Musica Rara
for: POS 2 VL BC
Item no.: 414239
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352951
for: Guitar
Item no.: 393907
Concertino
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 167001
Alte Salzburger Meister 8
for: Violin, organ [piano]
Item no.: 153767
for: Organ
Item no.: 457036
GIA Instrumental
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1149839
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher (2 Vl 2 Va Violone) u. Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305167
for: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292538
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