Partituras medio de Molenaar Edition

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...

Der Lobgesang und die Dankhymne 'Te Deum laudamus' (Wir loben Dich, o Gott) war das Ende der Metten (der ersten Morgengebeten in den Klostern). Eher behauptete die Tradition der Heilige Augustinus sei...

Alex Zwijgers wrote this fine arrangement of the Lacrimosa, an extract from Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem. This moving melody is extremely well suited for a performance in a church, though it can also prov...

Tantum Ergo was commissioned in 2012 by the Muscia Viva Summer Wind Band, in Triuggio, Italy. The 13th century Gregorian text, Pange Lingua from Thomas Aquinas was taken as the start point to describe...

Ave Musica is a musical impression about the fusion of two different bands. The charactaristics from the past; the chorals (Grosser Gott, wir loben dich) and the marching are the ingredients for the f...

This book contains 14 contradanzas by Manuel Saumell of which 12 are for clarinet and piano and 2 for clarinet quartet. Manuel Saumell (Havana 1817 - 1970) is considered the father of the Cuban musica...

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...

Weill's famous "Dreigroschenoper", in which prevailing opera conventions are ridiculed. The first part is a "serious", almost baroque overture, followed by a ballad that is easy on the ears, and the f...

The so called first horn concerto in D KV 412 is actually incomplete, and comprises a number of different parts, which according to musicologists don't really fit well together at all. The original fi...

Many composers have written a triumphal march, with maybe the best known one being by Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi for his 1871 grand opera, Aida, where, in the second act, Radames leads the...

A detatchment of native soldiers approach and pass through the village, then a song from a boat on the Nile is heard softly across the water; a short passage depicting an Arab playing his pipe, leads...

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. March No. 1 was composed in 1901 and...

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.