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.
(Partiten I und II)
for: Violin, 2 violas, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1631851
Kreidler Guitar Studio
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582412
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1214040
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 946570
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160785
for: Mixed choir (SATB), parish, orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 1160783
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160784
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160777
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160778
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160792
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160789
for: 2 trumpets, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1026829
Musik im Trio 14
for: Treble recorder, violin, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008699
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796372
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378444
Wer auf Gott den Herrn vertraut
for: Voice (alto), string orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 777438
vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahr 1945
Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis – Sonderband
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 773193
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 695241
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 691237
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 691240
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 691239
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 691238
ChaB 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685619
ChaB 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685618
ChaB 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 685620
für Trompete in Es oder B (Horn in Es)
for: Trumpet [horn], strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 683969
Stimmen für Horn in Es, Trompete in Es und B
Urtextausgabe
for: Trumpet [horn], strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683950
für Violine und Orchester
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682762
für Violine und Orchester
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 682761
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
für Viola, Streicher und Basso continuo
Stimmensatz
for: Viola, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 682534
für Viola, Streicher und Basso continuo
Ausgabe für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682533
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 682301
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
(Theme)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723360
op. 51/2
for: 2 violins
Music score
Item no.: 732375
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674863
Stimmenset
for: Bassoon, strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 672235
for: Bassoon, strings
Score
Item no.: 672196
for: 5 Blfl, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Vc, Bc
Set of parts
Item no.: 640898
2 Klassiker für 2 Trompeten bearbeitet
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 638716
for: 2 violins [flutes]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383423
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385700
Musica Antiqua Bohemica 63
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 215716
Sonatas No. VI-X
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549828
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644722
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
for: Flute, piano
Klavierauszug, Solostimme, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1640244
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