Parituras para conjuntos

Atmospheres was composed for the Uster Musiktage and first performed in Uster (Switzerland) on october 1st 1989.The idea for the music comes from the thought that whilst a room remains the same, someh...

A man is strolling in Paris and muses about the capital's prestigious history, suggested by a slow waltz. He is disturbed by the surrounding noise, but anyhow the musical evocation proves to be strong...

Gertl Jahns is in fact a well-known Dutch wind band music composer. He wrote this litle Latin-American sounding piece for wind band and was inspired by the 'Bajon', a typical Brazilian folkdance tune....

Hymns and Dances II für großes Harmonieorchester und Harfe (ad Libitum) folgt der Komposition 'Hymnes and Dances I' und ist basiert auf den Kontrast zwischen hymnischen Melodien und tanzenden Episoden...

In 1867 Richard Wagner completed his only comic opera 'Die Meistersänger von Nürnberg' (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) for which he himself had written the libretto, based on the 'Nuremberg Chronicle...

DOLLY SUITEThe French composer and organist Gabriel Fauré (Pamiers 1845 - Paris 1924) was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory of Music and among his pupils were Maurice Ravel, Nadia Bou...

As the title clearly indicates this is a kind of 'Foolish Toccata and Fugue', written in collaboration with Désiré Dondeyne. Both the introduction and the free fugue incited Master Dondeyne to develop...

This parade, extremely well suited for wind band, is a succession of themes amalgamated into a medley and reminding major sequences of an imaginary musical. Conductor and musicians come to the fore.

We are flying in a plane over the Vaccarès lake in the middle of the Mediterranean area in the South of France and this inspires to a musical evocation of the Provence. After a flight of flamingos too...

During the Second World War, Leroy Anderson was a captain with the American Intelligence Service. After the war he continued to work for the Defence Department in Washington for some years. At that ti...