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.
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for: Electric organ
Item no.: 349508
for: TENOR 1
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 104124
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 584205
aus: Biblische Lieder
Organ reduction
Item no.: 238103
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 612986
(erleichterte Ausgabe in G-Dur)op. 101/7
for: Piano
Item no.: 1538996
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: String orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1534815
(Winds)
for: 2 KLAR 2 FAG 2 HRN
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 275659
Bärenreiter Urtext
Instrumentation 1. Flute, 2. Flute (Piccolo flute), Oboe (2), 1. Clarinet (in B), 2. Clarinet (in A), Bassoon (2), Horn (3), Trumpet (2), Trombone (3), Tuba, Triangle, Timpani
for: Cello, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 616011
From the New World Symphony - First Movement
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647309
for: Flute, oboe, string orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1351790
for: Mixed Choir A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 969404
"Bohemian Suite"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 188940
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 103830
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1593905
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1020847
for: Jazz ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1061125
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984751
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 835116
for: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons, double bass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 339323
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 859888
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869959
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 328471
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 863668
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1089729
Orbis
for: Voice, piano
Singpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 1535122
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1349912
for: Flute Quartet and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1191378
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1540993
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1687947
for: 4 string instruments
Study score
Item no.: 1355906
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1020871
for Violin
for: Violin and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198374
for: Classical
Buch
Item no.: 248820
for: GES-M
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 180075
2 Märsche
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 606415
Single edition
Item no.: 397887
(From the New World)
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1143547
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 295679
Orchesterfassung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237044
Orchesterfassung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237026
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1171318
Marsch
for: Small wind band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 370306
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 474137
aus: Biblische Lieder
Organ reduction
Item no.: 238112
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