Molenaar Edition

Quite and desolate streets in a cold grey night. Two lonely people meet each other and a love story begins. This was what I saw in my imagination while arranging this famous evergreen. The leading par...

Manfred Schneider (1953), musician with the German Army Band Heeresmusikkorps 300 in Koblenz, got a good reputation with wind bands in Europe with his overture 'Upside Down', 'Song of Freedom', 'Rock...

Jef Penders (1928), the 'Valencian Dutchman', had already enriched the lighter original band repertoire with several fine and creative dance melodies such as a cha-cha-cha, a charleston, a reggae and...

Peter Laine has got a long and rich career with entertainment (and more serious) music. His experience, with a.o. the famous Swiss ensemble 'Hazy Osterwald Sextett' and several bands and radio orchest...

The American pianist and composer Cy Coleman(1929) is certainly best known as the author of several musical comedies such as Wildcat (1960), Sweet Charity (1966), Seesaw (1973) and of course Barnum (1...

(Rhapsody from Friesland)Friesland (Fryslân in the Frisian language) does not only have its own language but it also boasts a very rich own culture with many folk songs sometimes dating from many cent...

Josef Strauß, the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, worked for some time as an architect and engineer before he started conducting to replace his elder brother Johann Junior who had become seriously...