Willy Hautvast: Partituras medio

The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante lived from 1795 up to 1870. Beside some 60(!) operas he wrote a number of concerti such as this Concerto for Horn, here in a skillfull arrangement for band by W...

Rudolf Friml studied composition with Antonin Dvoràk at the conservatory of music of his native town. He settled in the United States of America in 1906 after having spent already five years in the St...

The Italian composer Saverio Mercadante lived from 1795 up to 1870. Beside some 60(!) operas he wrote a number of concerti such as this Concerto for Horn, here in a skillfull arrangement for band by W...

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...

Following Chopin's example, Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 - March 25, 1918) composed a series of piano pieces called 'préludes.' Debussy, a pupil of Émile Durand and César Franck, gave a title to ea...