Désiré Dondeyne: Partituras medio

Although one can strive for original music in the field of the wind orchestra, the arrangement still has its place. When one hears Mozart's moving masonic funeral music played by a symphonic or fanfar...

With 'Listening to Paris' we had discovered the talent of Mickey Nicolas, assistant conductor at and arranger for the famous Paris Cabaret 'Le Lido'. Here is a new composition for medium grade bands w...

This concert march was originally written for the piano in 1960. In the meantime, his friend Désiré Dondeyne whom Serge Lancen had met as fellow-pupil at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de...

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...

Three sound portraits of Turkey: the 'Topkapi Palace' , the imperial residence built after the Ottoman conquest in Istanbul, the 'Blue Mosque' or Sultan Ahmet mosque built between 1609 and 1616 also a...

Although one can strive for original music in the field of the wind orchestra, the arrangement still has its place. When one hears Mozart's moving masonic funeral music played by a symphonic or fanfar...

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.

This short sequence, composed as a tribute to the European Community, is intended for any public musical event, but can introduce a concert as well and, in a way, call for the attention of the audienc...

Marche wurde 1976 für Harmonieorchester komponiert und hat einen spielerischen, leichten zwar eleganten Charakter. Die rhythmische Reichtum bildet einen Kontrast mit der klassischen Metrik eines Marsc...

Marche wurde 1976 für Harmonieorchester komponiert und hat einen spielerischen, leichten zwar eleganten Charakter. Die rhythmische Reichtum bildet einen Kontrast mit der klassischen Metrik eines Marsc...

It is sometimes said that in the past centuries there was no tradition in composing with respect to original works for windband. This work proves the contrary in a brilliant orchestration by Désiré Do...

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...

This short sequence, composed as a tribute to the European Community, is intended for any public musical event, but can introduce a concert as well and, in a way, call for the attention of the audienc...

Marche, composed for band in 1976, is a fanciful, varied and elegant composition in which the rhythm contrasts in a charming way with the martial metric pattern. Désiré Dondeyne provided the rich inst...