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.
aus dem Notturno op. 20 für Flöte, Violine, Viola und Violoncello
Augsburg, 1797
for: Flute, violin, viola, cello (flute quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5885
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3842
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4478
aus: 30 Etüden für Contrabass zur Erzielung eines kräftigen Tones und rhythmischer Sicherheit
for: Double bass
Sheet music
Item no.: 4890
Polka für Blaskapelle
for: Small wind band
Flugelhorn 1 in Bb (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1556380
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3864
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3841
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4021
Liebeslied im Garten
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 194082
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 1338085
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Timpani
Single part Kettledrums
Item no.: 238101
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Sopran solo (T), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1338278
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936649
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936884
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1108893
(from "Sonatina in D minor")
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726957
2. "Down in the forest"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782692
from: Symphony No. 9 From the New World
for: Trumpet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 724850
E minor, op. 95, 2nd movement
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 727915
3. "Golden cornfields"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782693
op. 8/8
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 734042
op. 54/5
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738357
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 779790
(Theme)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723360
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 859888
(op. 101/7)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756569
for: Accordion
Sheet music
Item no.: 1543413
4. "The Forsaken Lover"op. 29
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280453
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 5/6)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3490
Nr. 5: Ein Sommertag (dt.)
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 223287
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192816
op. 29, Nr. 4 (B. 59/4)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2853
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.3/4)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3485
Nr. 3: Am Brünnlein (dt.)
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364114
aus: 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4041
Nr. 1: Es zog manch Lied (dt.)
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261230
aus: "15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden", op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4850
B 156
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3525
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.1/2)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3477
aus 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3881
Nr. 3: Goldene Fluren (dt.)
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192815
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 494754
aus: 15 leichte, melodisch-harmonische und rhythmische Etüden, op. 76
for: 1–2 cellos
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 4394
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374560
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
Item no.: 150373
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 150375
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 126405
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 126881
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