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.
für Violine ohne Baß (Faksimile und Übertragung)
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 382238
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796372
Magdeburger Faksimile Offizin (Facsimile)
for: 2 flutes, basso continuo
Stimme, Faksimile
Item no.: 473329
Musica Antiqua Bohemica I/38
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 122586
Denkmaeler Der Musik In Salzburg Bd 3 (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
for: Violin
Item no.: 336187
for soli, mixed chorus, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cornetti, 3 sackbutts, 4 trumpets, timpani and bc
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 615819
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft III: Sonata XI - XVI
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304640
Geistliches Konzert
for: Voice (soprano), violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 463841
Edition Schott
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 727605
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 549172
bearbeitet für Viola
mit beigefügter Handschrift Bibers
for: Viola
Ensemble score
Item no.: 120672
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343992
arrangé pour alto seul (original pour violon)
Collection Frédéric Lainé
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 660902
für Violine mit Klavierbegleitung
DTÖ - Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 11
for: Violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 103407
mit beigefügter Handschrift Bibers
for: Cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 378280
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 153~Dtoe 153
for: VL CEMB
Score, Parts
Item no.: 131824
for: Trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 112624
für Trompete in Es oder B (Horn in Es)
for: Trumpet [horn], strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 683969
Musica Rara
for: 2 trumpets, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 147315
for: VL KB BC
Item no.: 153316
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1214040
Edition Schott
for: Klarinette und Streichorchester; 2 Hörner ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 746754
Corona - Werkreihe für Kammerorchester
for: String orchestra
Streicherstimmensatz 3,3,2,3
Item no.: 783618
transponierte Fassung in G-Dur
for: 4 trumpets (B-flat), timpani, organ; trombone ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 498683
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378444
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No. 7/8)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3656
From "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" (No.1/2)
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Sheet music
Item no.: 3477
for: Strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 313955
für flexibles Ensemble - Ensemble ad libitum Band 133
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663537
for: 2 trumpets, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 1026829
from Orchestral Trio in Bb
for Woodwind Quartet
RUNDEL La Musica Boema
for: 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1560203
Musica Rara
for: POS 2 VL BC
Item no.: 414239
Debkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 127~Dtoe 127
for: Baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 103511
für 3 Flöten (Blockflöten AAT)
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 225740
Musik Des 17 Jahrhunderts Bd 15
for: 5 BFL 5 STR BC
Score
Item no.: 241722
for: 3 VL 4 VDG 2 VIOLONE CEMB
Score, Parts
Item no.: 336233
for: Alto trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568575
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568583
for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568586
for: Cello, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568588
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568589
for: Tuba, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568590
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1568591
Edition Immer
Reihe I: Werke aus Kremsier
for: 8 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351528
Edition Immer
Reihe 8: Trompeten-Ensemble
for: 2–3 trumpets
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1351574
für flexibles Ensemble Partitur und Stimmen
Ensemble ad libitum 87
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661725
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich 96~Dtoe 96
for: 2 VL VA BC
Score
Item no.: 103487
Musica Rara
for: TRP VL KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 329965
Ciaccona für Violine und Generalbaß
for: Violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 231561
für Violine und Orchester
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 682762
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