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: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796372
Die Pauernkirchfahrt genandt, Werke für Streicher u. B. c.
Erstdruck
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304822
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907538
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 10
Score
Item no.: 633422
Brass Musik, Band 3
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 474358
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 206508
Edward H. Tarr Series
The Brass Press
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 462171
for: Strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 313956
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1659204
Für Trompete und Streicher
Stimmen (Trompete und 5-4-3-3-2)
for: Trumpet, strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 433972
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 148434
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 946570
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568588
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568581
for: Soprano saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292541
for: Bass trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292534
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 600806
Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 898582
Das liederliche Schwärmen der Musquetirer, Mars, die Schlacht, Undt Lamento der Verwundten, mit Arien imitirt Und Baccho dedicirt
for: Strings, basso continuo
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672681
"Dresdner Konzert"
Pegasus Orchester Archiv
for: Violin, string orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 330137
Edition Immer
for: 8 TRP PK BC
Item no.: 262282
Werke für Streicher u. Basso continuo
Erstdruck
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305147
for: Flute, strings, basso continuo
Stimmen-Set (Streicher)
Item no.: 364360
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher (2 Vl 2 Va Violone) u. Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304842
Tschechische Barockmusik 61
for: 2 clarinets
Item no.: 289426
Bläserstimmensatz (3 Posaunen)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 641937
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
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 365969
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644722
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669162
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 245191
Weihnachtsoratorium (Erstdruck)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 657000
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: OB (FL) HRN STR (+ CEMB)
Set of parts
Item no.: 372071
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629911
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 558534
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
Edition Immer
Reihe 8: Trompeten-Ensemble
for: 2–3 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1351574
für flexibles Ensemble Partitur und Stimmen
Ensemble ad libitum 87
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661725
Musica Rara
for: TRP VL KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 329964
für Violine und Orchester
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 682761
Musica Antiqua Bohemica 63
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 215716
DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Solo part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 224283
(Facsimile)
for: Violin, basso continuo
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 363787
for: 3 VL 4 VDG 2 VIOLONE CEMB
Score, Parts
Item no.: 336233
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 363782
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 945754
Süddeutsche Orgelmeister des Barock Bd 21
for: Organ
Item no.: 216105
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