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.
for cello and piano
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404212
Sinfonische Dichtung (Polednice op. 108)
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 1200
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 622599
for: 3 Cellos and Piano
Book
Item no.: 629097
Violine
for: Violin
Item no.: 922456
EMB Moments Musicaux for Violoncello
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 256533
Kontrabass und Klavier
Klavierauszug mit Solostimme
for: Double bass, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 883510
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131688
First Movement
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 945703
op. 94
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 166082
für 4 Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orgel
Orgelfassung mit Klavierauszug der Orchesterfassung
Piano reduction
Item no.: 183167
für Streichorchester
Urtextausgabe
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 659386
Schule
for: Double bass
Item no.: 198078
'cello by Birtel Vol. 19
for: 4 cellos
Score, part
Item no.: 577199
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 418571
op. 46 Nr. 2
Partitur / Einzelstimme
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 236532
für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 357344
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 635385
Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Antonín Dvorák IV/10
for: Violinen (2), Cello, Harmonium (Klavier)
Spielpartitur, Stimmensatz
Item no.: 103889
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
Item no.: 940402
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 674775
for flute and piano
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 165304
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163734
originally for two violins and viola
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 603504
from the Idyll "Ein Sommerabend"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 723990
für Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 189597
for: Cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 776896
Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Antonín Dvorák IV/1
for: Violin, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 296813
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1552141
Henle Urtext Editions
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 796920
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662908
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 559840
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 345392
for: Trumpet, organ
Item no.: 576738
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391994
ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 151752
for: 6 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 394591
“From the New World”
Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 180586
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 162063
Piano Collection
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 180141
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486834
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586175
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486577
für Streichtrio Partitur und Stimmen
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 631199
Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Antonín Dvorák IV/3
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 114150
Lyric book
Item no.: 128217
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 393024
Clarinet Attack
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 691270
op. 34/1
for: Violin, cello, harp
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549643
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