The 19th century stands for industrialization, change and revolution throughout Europe, but also for the struggle for national identity and self-determination. Against the background of forced Germanization, and the suppression of an independent Czech culture in the German, Austrian, Hungarian region, composers such as Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák embodied Czech Romanticism in the music world. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderful music by Czech romantic composers today.
The struggle for a true Czech national identity became the decisive engine driving change in Czech society and culture. Music proved to be an excellent instrument for expressing this new national movement, and was perfected by the most important representatives of Czech romanticism:
One of the greatest Czech nationalist composers Bedřich Smetana was actually born into a German family, and baptized “Friedrich”. As a young man he spoke only a little Czech. It was this ’German Czech’ who became the founder of Czech national music, and also the conductor of the Czech National Theater in Prague. The programmatic cycle of the symphonic poems “My Fatherland” with the movement Vltava is known to every schoolchild in the Czech Republic today.
Just as Smetana contributed to the formation of a national identity within the Czech region, Antonín Dvořák was also instrumental in the popularization of Czech music around Europe and further afield. Dvořák is arguably the most famous Czech composer of all time, and one of the few who became famous in Europe, Russia and the USA during his lifetime. Dvořák’s music is characterized by a combination of precise compositional craftsmanship and unique Slavic melodies. Dvořák’s Symphonies and symphonic poems are part of the core repertoire of all orchestras around the world today.
More influential yet lesser-known Czech romantic composers include Zdeněk Fibich and Josef Suk. Take a look at Piano Works by Zdeněk Fibich and Chamber Music by Josef Suk, which are real hidden gems.
Forty Etudes
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Music score
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String Solo
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Music score
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Edited after sketches, autographs and the First Edition
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Music score
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“From the New World”
Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts
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Score (Urtext edition)
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for viola and piano
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for: Cello
Ensemble score
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mit kritischem Kommentar
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Piano reduction
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Bärenreiter Urtext
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Urtextausgabe
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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6 Duette, Band 2
Simrock Original Edition
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Musica Antiqua Bohemica I/13
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Transcribed for Viola and Piano
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Piano score, solo part
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op. 100
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for: 2 cellos
Set of parts
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Orgelfassung mit zusätzlichen Stimmen von Violoncello und Kontrabass
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Organ reduction
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Score
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Berühmte Humoreske
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op. 94
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Urtextausgabe
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for flute and piano
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Henle Urtext Editions
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Set of parts
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for: Trumpet, organ
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Eulenburg Studienpartituren
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Study score
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ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
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High School of Cello Playing
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Nr. 1 A-Dur, Nr. 4 Des-Dur
Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Antonín Dvorák IV/6
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Set of parts
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15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden für Violoncello (1. Lage)
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op. 72/10,13,16
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Arrangement
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Schule
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(American Quartet)
Study Score
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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op. 100
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op. 87
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Ensemble score, solo parts
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IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me - Op. 55
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Sheet music
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Emmanuel Pahud presents
The Flute Collection
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Set of parts
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