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: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 350691
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237214
for: Organ or Harpsichord
Book
Item no.: 579423
for: 5 FL 2 VL 3 VDG (VA) ORG
Score, Parts
Item no.: 247857
Musik im Trio 14
for: Treble recorder, violin, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1008699
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 205237
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Einzelstimme Viola rip.
Item no.: 784718
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Einzelstimme Violine II rip.
Item no.: 784717
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Einzelstimme Violine I rip.
Item no.: 784716
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Harmoniestimmen Flöte I/Oboe, Flöte II/Oboe, Horn I, Horn II
Item no.: 784571
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, violone, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304852
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160789
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669157
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 365968
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 793575
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Clarino (trumpet) 2
Item no.: 1669166
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669161
Fidicinium Sacro-profanum. Zwölf Sonaten für Streicher u. Basso continuo
for: Violin
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 365967
Praeclassica
for: Flute, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421603
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 783784
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641959
Praeclassica
for: Flute, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421604
Praeclassica
for: Flute, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421602
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Single part viola 2
Item no.: 783836
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 485549
for: Violin
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 365966
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Single part Bass recorder
Item no.: 633141
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 642034
for clarinet and piano
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 793578
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641991
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641965
Missa aulica
for: Basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 366401
for: Treble recorder
Single part
Item no.: 633187
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783826
for: Strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 645387
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 642052
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237217
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Viola
Item no.: 793577
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 783771
for: Strings, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672677
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237221
à 26 in concerto
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237215
Praeclassica
for: Flute, orchestra
Single part
Item no.: 421601
for clarinet and orchestra
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 793576
for: Violine und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Single part Horn 1
Item no.: 784714
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 784485
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 783775
op. 10/1
for: Harpsichord [piano], string orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 783765
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