Josef Antonín Gurecký was a brother of the composer Václav Matyáš Gurecký.

Josef Antonín Gurecký was a member of the household of the Kromeriz Cardinal Schrattenbach and stayed there to work in the services of his successor Jakob Ernest von Liechtenstein. Together with his brother Václav Matyáš Gurecký he was educated at a Piarist college and after Václav Matyáš died he took over his position as a musical director at the Olomouc cathedral, composing mostly sacred music. His sonata for violin and basso continuo was probably written during his Dresden sojourn; together with his virtuoso violin concerto it is preserved in the Dresden library and the difficulty of the solo part signifies it was dedicated to the phenomenal German violinist Pisendel.