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: Blasorchester
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for: Soloists, SATB and Organ
Score
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for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
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Score
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for: String orchestra
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
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"From the New World"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Spielpartitur
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for: FAG STR TRIO
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for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Score, Parts
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for: Violin, piano
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(Urtext)
for: Cello, piano
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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from "Gipsy Melodies"
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for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Book
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Book
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"American Suite"
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for: FL KLAR VL KLAV
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Taschenpartitur
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Score
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