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.
Polka für Blaskapelle
for: Small wind band
Flugelhorn 1 in Bb (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1556380
Liebeslied im Garten
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 194082
Berühmte Humoreskeop. 101/7
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1539079
in Nativitate Domini in nocte
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664364
Ea278
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105468
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1201372
Berühmte Humoreske
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 209305
Lied der alten Mutter, op. 101/7(1895) und 55/4(1880)
for: Salon orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1668290
op. 101/7
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 356635
Poème
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356476
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301295
IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me - Op. 55
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275703
for: Clarinet, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301316
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301319
for: Violin, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301280
for: Viola, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301278
for: Cello, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301276
IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me - Op. 55
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275723
for: Tenor recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301307
IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me - Op. 55
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1275721
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1201373
für Violoncello
for: Cello
Item no.: 392873
Organ in Concert 006
for: Electric organ
Item no.: 146029
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 983102
for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1578354
for: Trumpet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1307714
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1307717
MusicWorks Grade 2
for: Concert band [youth concert band]
Score
Item no.: 1657829
Lyric book
Item no.: 1678487
Forty Etudes
previously 26,95 € (save 72 %)
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 190079
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676469
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676470
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676468
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 372692
Berühmte Humoreske
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 357327
for: Piano
Item no.: 1657463
Walton Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 985016
"From the New World"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 693652
Urtextausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1655130
Studien-Edition
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674600
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 631695
15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden für Violoncello (1. Lage)
mit Begleitung eines 2. Violoncellos ad libitum
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 392876
Dauer: 11 Minuten
for: Voice, organ
Score
Item no.: 279302
für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 392871
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 1663957
Lyrisches Märchen in drei Aufzügen op. 114
Lyric book
Item no.: 103734
(1876/77)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343442
Der Musikalische Salon Vol. 18
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score, part
Item no.: 475257
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