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: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641965
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641940
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 641943
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 642065
Alte Salzburger Meister 8
for: Violin, organ [piano]
Item no.: 153767
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1669151
for: Organ
Item no.: 457036
bearbeitet für vier bis sechs Stimmen
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 139670
for: 2 Singstimmen (SA) 2 Violinen, Violoncello, [2 Flöten 2 HRN) Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 469308
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 341572
for: Organ
Item no.: 457030
for: Organ
Item no.: 457033
for: Singstimme (A/B), 2 Violinen, [FL) Violoncello Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 475216
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 382699
for: 2 violins
Book
Item no.: 939366
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 945754
Kreidler Guitar Studio
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582412
Musica Rara
for: TRP VL KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 329965
Ciaccona für Violine und Generalbaß
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 231561
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 245191
für flexibles Ensemble - Ensemble ad libitum Band 133
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663537
für flexibles Ensemble Partitur und Stimmen
Ensemble ad libitum 87
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661725
Collection Marcel Lejeune
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733037
arrangé pour alto seul (original pour violon)
Collection Frédéric Lainé
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 660902
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597343
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597339
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568592
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568578
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568575
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568574
für 3 Flöten (Blockflöten AAT)
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 225740
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597351
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568594
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568579
for: Bassoon, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597362
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597360
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597340
for: Horn (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568576
Reihe Musica Retiosa
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, solo part
Item no.: 378264
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597361
for: Clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597350
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568580
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568577
for: Alto saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568570
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568593
for: Cornet (E-flat), piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 1568573
for: Cornet (E-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597341
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