Partituras para orquesta de viento

An American in Paris was inspired by a trip to Europe in 1928. Gershwin called it a 'rhapsodic ballet'in the impressionistic style. The composer did not want to describe but rather to suggest and appe...

The title 'Aratoro' was chosen in remembrance of the composer's trip to New Zealand in 1991. In the Maori language 'Ara' means path, 'Toro', to explore or to dicover. The work is comprised of six part...

Here is the last movement of the largest symphony by Gustav Mahler, the Symphony number 3, in a fine arrangement for symphonic band. This enables wind band players to enjoy one of the most beautiful c...

The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ball...

Danse des Sauvages' (Dance of the Savages) is an excerpt from the ballet opera 'Les Indes Galantes' (The Courtly Indies). Rameau was one of the most important French composers (1683 - 1764). He wrote...

In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

Berlioz wrote the Hungarian March in 1846, which he later in the year included in his large work, The Damnation of Faust. The march was written on the advice of those Berlioz had told how the Hungaria...

In 1888 a poor music teacher got engaged to a writer, eight years older than him. Caroline Alice Roberts dedicated her poem The Wind At Dawn to her beloved Edward Elgar. And he composed his Liebesgruß...

Rachmaninoff - Vocalise, Rachmaninoff's popular song without words, scored for solo oboe and band.

Unser zweiter Teil der 'Feuerwerksmusik' enthält die Mittelsätze, in denen die Holzbläser und Hörner im Vordergrund stehen. Die BOURREE ist lediglich dreistimmig: zwei gleichberechtigte Melodiestimmen...

In der Suite werden komplette Stücke und weitverbreitete Liedmelodien aus der Zeit um 1500 zitiert. Historisch Überliefertes und im Geiste der Renaissancemusik Nachempfundenes verschmelzen zu einem ne...

Auf dem Gebiet der sakralen Orgelmusik zeigten sich in Belgien in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts Anzeichen einer sich bildenden nationalen Schule. Nicolas Jacques Lemmens (1823-1881) wirkte a...