Partituras medio de Molenaar Edition

This symphony has a wonderful 2nd movement which lends itself excellently for performance by windband.In Holland this movement serves as a signature tune for a very popular tv-programme, 'Het Capitool...

Mozart rearranged some of his operas also for wind ensemble, so with that in mind, his beautiful Bassoon Concerto works wonderfully with concert band accompaniement.

The 'big' composers from all over the world who are well known for their symphonic works, seldom wrote for wind orchestra. Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov was one of the rare and extemely valuable exceptions,...

This symphonic masterpiece has been arranged for wind band by Piet Stalmeier as result of a commission by the famous conductor Heinz Friesen.

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; it was revised by the composer i...

This opera in three acts is based on a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil inspired by the play 'The sunken bell' by the German playwright Gerhard Hauptmann. It tells a tragical story, similar to the 'Undine'...

The 'suite Arogno' is a musical evocation of the history of this small village on the Alps, at the border with Italy. The first movement describes the travel of architect Adamo da Arogno to Trento whe...

Gioacchino Rossini is famous as composer of a fabulous series op splendid operas of which the overtures are often most popular and appreciated. The opera 'La Cambiale di Matrimonio' (the change of the...

Grieg composed this funeral march for his friend, Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak who died at the age of 23. Grieg took copies of this piece on all his travels as he wished that it would be played...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote two series of eight Slavonic dances. The first series, composed in 1878, was so successful that the editor asked the composer to write a second series. It was not befo...

The Capriol Suite is a set of dances in the renaissance style. It was based on tunes found in a manual of Renaissance dances by the French priest Jehan Tabourot. The treatment of the source material i...

The British composer Edward Elgar, aside from writing his famous Pomp and Circumstance marches, also wrote two symphonies. This piece is the opening theme of his first symphony. A beautiful late roman...

L'Almanach aux Images was composed in 1911, originally consisting of eight piano miniatureseach preceded by a poem. It is perhaps the best-known work of French pianist, composer and conductor, Gabriel...

The Voyevoda from Tchaikovsky is based on the play A Dream on the Volga which was premiered on February 11, 1869. In the 1870s Tchaikovsky destroyed the manuscript full score of the opera, while recyc...

Funeral March of a Marionette was composed in 1872 as part of Charles Gonoud's Suite Burlesque for piano. This suite was intended as a parody of the music critic, Henry Chorley. When he had finished c...

The composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is regarded as Norway's the most important composer and for a large part can be regarded as a miniaturist. He has written famous works such as the Piano Concerto...