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.
„Ach, wie soll ich das gestehen“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6314
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747685
„Weg mit Quart- und Foliobänden“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Score
Item no.: 6313
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238116
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238118
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238115
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238117
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238114
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238136
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238135
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238132
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238100
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238098
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238107
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238096
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238090
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238088
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238134
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238092
Single part
Item no.: 338371
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238108
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238099
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238089
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238109
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238106
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238091
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238097
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238110
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238133
for: GES-M
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 180075
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238123
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238083
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238081
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238126
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238125
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238082
aus: Biblische Lieder
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238127
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238124
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238080
aus: Biblische Lieder
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238079
für gem Chor (SAM) a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1610596
op. 29, Nr. 1 (B. 59/1)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2747
„Ha, ha, ha, ha, ich merke wohl an euren werten Nasen“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen
Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6311
op. 29, Nr. 3 (B. 59/3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2842
„Venerabilis Barba Capucinorum floruit“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6312
op. 29, Nr. 2 (B. 59/2)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2801
aus: 15 Etüden, op. 116
for: Viola
Sheet music
Item no.: 4970
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 7/8)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3656
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