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: Alto trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292536
Missa aulica
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 366395
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 754430
for Double Brass Quintet
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995980
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597350
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568570
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: 2 trumpets, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351571
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568577
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: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568580
für Fagott und Klavier
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 672194
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 96~Dtoe 96
for: 2 VL VA BC
Score
Item no.: 103487
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich Bd 25~Dtoe 25
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 103420
for: Flute, string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 285212
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 281730
for: Trumpet or Cornet & Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1636940
for: Organ, chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 649771
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 141997
for: Cornet (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597341
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568593
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.3/4)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3485
for: Flexible ensemble
Item no.: 666823
for: Cornet (E-flat), piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 1568573
for: Violin, Cello and Harpsichord
Score, Parts
Item no.: 579395
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1214040
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 691237
for: 5 Blockflöten (SSATB) 5 Streicher, Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 332390
Musica Mundi 11
for: 2 violins, basso continuo
Item no.: 159845
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674863
for: Violin
Item no.: 122761
ars instrumentalis 023
for: Oboe, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 135267
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 600915
bearbeitet für vier bis sechs Stimmen
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 139670
Brass total
for: 6 TRP PK ORG
Score, Parts
Item no.: 419350
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 107922
"Dresdner Konzert"
Pegasus Orchester Archiv
for: Violin, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 419701
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1669153
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1669151
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305170
for: Viola, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292528
Musik Des 17 Jahrhunderts Bd 15
for: 5 BFL 5 STR BC
Score
Item no.: 241722
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 160173
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292542
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304841
for: 2 violins
Book
Item no.: 939366
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 695241
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