Fritz Neuböck

When Music Becomes Love (Fanfarenorchester)

When music becomes love, with these few words one could describe the story told in the following piece.

It is the story of Viktoria and Matthias, who met at a music festival in Burgenland (Austria) as members of several Styrian concert bands (Austria). They fell in love with each other, but had to experience this love as a long-distance relationship. Viktoria at home in Styria, Mathias as a forester in Bad Goisern. Viktoria eventually followed him to Upper Austria, to Bad Goisern, and ended up as a conductor with the local "Gebirgsmusik."

"When Music Becomes Love" begins with dawn and the announcement of the music festival, which is musically realized by a festive march. The centerpiece of the composition is a ballad, heard first as a flugelhorn solo and then in the full band. Very romantic, but also somewhat melancholy because of the long-distance relationship. In the next transition, the two folk songs and the wedding song "Die Sonne neiget sich" are incorporated in very short quotations. After this, the composition ends again, with the theme of the festive march heard in the beginning. It symbolizes the wedding celebration, which became a great feast of love and music, not least due to the participation of three concert bands.

This composition was created with the help of a contribution from the Music Investment Fund, an initiative of Buma/Stemra in cooperation with Voi(C)e, the Copyright Interests Federation and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands.