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.
bearbeitet für Viola
mit beigefügter Handschrift Bibers
for: Viola
Ensemble score
Item no.: 120672
für Violine ohne Baß (Faksimile und Übertragung)
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 382238
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796372
aus: "Sonatae tam Aris, quam Aulis servientes"
Salzburg, 1676
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4558
arrangé pour alto seul (original pour violon)
Collection Frédéric Lainé
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 660902
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft III: Sonata XI - XVI
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304640
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 112624
für Trompete in Es oder B (Horn in Es)
for: Trumpet [horn], strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 683969
for: VL KB BC
Item no.: 153316
mit beigefügter Handschrift Bibers
for: Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 378280
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft II: Sonata VI - X
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304639
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 153~Dtoe 153
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 131824
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft I: Sonata I - V
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 303536
(Partiten I und II)
for: Violin, 2 violas, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1631851
transponierte Fassung in G-Dur
for: 4 trumpets (B-flat), timpani, organ; trombone ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 498683
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: Trumpet, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 1351469
for soli, mixed chorus, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cornetti, 3 sackbutts, 4 trumpets, timpani and bc
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 615819
Musica Rara
for: 2 trumpets, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 147315
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 549172
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343992
Denkmaeler Der Musik In Salzburg Bd 3 (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
for: Violin
Item no.: 336187
Die Pauernkirchfahrt genandt, Werke für Streicher u. B. c.
Erstdruck
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305146
Magdeburger Faksimile Offizin (Facsimile)
for: 2 flutes, basso continuo
Stimme, Faksimile
Item no.: 473329
Die Pauernkirchfahrt genandt, Werke für Streicher u. B. c.
Erstdruck
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304822
Edition Schott
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 727605
Musica Antiqua Bohemica I/38
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 122586
Geistliches Konzert
for: Voice (soprano), violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 463841
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597339
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597343
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568592
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568574
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568575
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568578
für Violine und Basso continuo
Collegium Musicum - Kölner Reihe Alter Musik (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 559895
for: 2 TRP 2 VL 4 VA BC
Item no.: 247318
(Facsimile)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 456860
für Viola, Violoncello und Cembalo
for: Viola, Violoncello Cembalo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 614850
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 289427
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 603585
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 281780
aus "Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servient"
Brass Musik, Band 11
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 476338
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Flute, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392361
for: 2 Violas and Piano
Book
Item no.: 163201
Klassik
for: Trumpet Septet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 973934
ars instrumentalis 023
for: Oboe, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344299
Sonatas No. VI-X
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549828
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292544
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292543