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.
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1113849
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 551445
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 305166
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1113799
for: Violin, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 691240
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 642046
for: Trumpet, strings
Score
Item no.: 372932
for: 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings
Score
Item no.: 331401
from Orchestral Trio in Bb
for Woodwind Quartet
RUNDEL La Musica Boema
for: 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1560203
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.1/2)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3477
for: 2 trumpets
Item no.: 433486
für 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
for: 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 432829
for: Bass clarinet, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597349
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568587
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568585
Stimmen für Horn in Es, Trompete in Es und B
Urtextausgabe
for: Trumpet [horn], strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683950
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB) 2 Violinen, 2 Posaunen, (Viola da gamba) Basso continuo
[latein, deutsch]
Item no.: 463156
for: Organ
Item no.: 457033
op. 51/2
for: 2 violins
Music score
Item no.: 732375
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 209004
(Theme)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723360
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 211121
for: Strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 282586
aus „Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servient“
Brass Musik 1
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1690601
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 691239
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 691238
GIA Instrumental
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1153984
for: 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Item no.: 247280
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596999
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392411
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597359
for: Soprano saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1597348
From 12 Heroic Marches
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 763568
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568591
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568583
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568571
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378444
[mit dem Nachtwächterlied]
Harmonia Coelestis – Auserlesene Barockmusik
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 604722
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester (1692)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641356
Kreidler Guitar Studio
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1582412
for: 2 Trompeten, Orgel, Streicher, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 457028
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 153~Dtoe 153
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1672476
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 682301
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: 8 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351528
für Viola, Streicher und Basso continuo
Ausgabe für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682533
Musica Rara
for: TRP VL KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 329965
for: Trumpet [oboe], organ
Item no.: 225636
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568589
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