Despite the difficult conditions in the Bohemian lands during and after the Thirty Years’ War in the first half of the 17th century, the Baroque style gradually began to develop, despite being slightly behind the rest of Europe. Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover all the wonderful Czech Baroque Music with Stretta today!
With the advent of the Baroque era, the Czech people were re-Catholicized by the Habsburgs. They built many Catholic churches, and these had to be filled with music. Church and organ music was at the centre of the work for almost all Czech composers of the time.
An important composer who was the driving force of the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque Period was poet and scholar Adam Václav Michna von Otradovic (1600*-1676). He tried to actively fight against the cultural decline in the period after the Battle of The White Mountain (1621), after which the majority of the Protestant intellectual and cultural elite fled the country. Through his tireless work, he created a new surge in Czech baroque music, and became a role model for future generations. Michna composed in the early Italian baroque style, but he also often used elements from the Renaissance. The vast majority of the 230 surviving works are sacred. In addition to Latin texts, he also set his own native Czech poetry to music.
An important high baroque figure is Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640-1693). He worked as a court trumpeter, organist and later as director of the court orchestra of the Bishop of Olomouc. He wrote both secular instrumental music, mainly for wind instruments, and sacred music. A total of around 120 compositions have been preserved. His style of composition is based on modal principles, complemented by rich melodies, with clear Moravian folk roots.
Pavel Vejvanovský was colleagues for two years in the Olomouc Chapel with the Austro-Czech composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704). However, he soon went to Salzburg, where he got a position as Kapellmeister of the archbishop’s court orchestra. He wrote mainly instrumental compositions, sonatas and sacred music.
The most important composer of the Baroque period is undoubtably Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). Zelenka trained in Prague, and then in 1710 moved to Dresden, where he spent his entire artistic life in the service of the royal court, first as a double bass player, and later as court composer. Due to the exceptional quality of his unconventional works, he is often compared to J. S. Bach. Zelenka devoted himself primarily to large-scale sacred vocal, instrumental works. Over 250 of his compositions have been preserved to this day.
Edition Schott
for: Viola, basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 749943
Edward H. Tarr Series
The Brass Press
for: 8 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 180138
ChaB 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685619
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: 2 trumpets, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 262288
Corona - Werkreihe für Kammerorchester
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 333183
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597355
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597353
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568590
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292535
2 Klassiker für 2 Trompeten bearbeitet
for: 2 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 638716
Streichorchester
Partitur
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 895426
Edition Schott
for: String orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 101636
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550196
Stimmenset
for: Bassoon, strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 672235
für Viola und Bc
for: Viola, basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 125305
Sumptuous sonata for 9 trumpets and brass ensemble
for: Brass ensemble (15 parts), timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 973231
Corona - Werkreihe für Kammerorchester
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 224115
Flöte zwischen Rokoko und Romantik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 130880
for: Strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 313955
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 9/10)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3672
Corona - Werkreihe für Kammerorchester
for: String orchestra
Streicherstimmensatz 3,3,2,3
Item no.: 783618
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 691240
for: 8 TRP PK BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 142224
Edition Schott
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 749502
vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahr 1945
Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis – Sonderband
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 773193
ChaB 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685618
Denkmaeler Der Musik In Salzburg~Einzelausgaben 5
Score
Item no.: 260999
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester (1692)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 642046
für Violine (Traversflöte), Viola da gamba und Bass
(Komponist evtl. auch Johann Stamitz) - Teil der Ledenburg-Sammlung
for: Violin, viola da gamba, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 664587
for: 2 Singstimmen (SA) 2 Violinen, Violoncello, [2 Flöten 2 HRN) Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 469308
Ciaccona für Violine und Generalbaß
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 231561
Ausgabe für Flöte und Klavier
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 121569
"Dresdner Konzert"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 419702
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 314154
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings
Score
Item no.: 331401
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292531
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1292530
Klassik
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 551445
for: Tenor saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597347
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597346
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597345
for: Bass trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597342
für Trompete und Klavier
for: Trumpet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 598167
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1113799
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305166
für Trompete, Violine, 2 Violen, Violoncello und Basso continuo
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351520
Originally Sonata a 7
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 996481
Klavierauszug
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 178604
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