Franco Cesarini

May your path be winding, windy, lonely and dangerous, leading you to the most spectacular view. May your mountains rise to the clouds and overcome them. - Edward Abbey

Notes from the Road was commissioned by the Thurgau Cantonal Music Association, Switzerland, as the required piece for the second category at the 26th Thurgau Cantonal Music Festival in 2023. The piec...

Winds of Hope is an overture for wind orchestra that celebrates the courage to face life—the ability to look beyond the horizon and always find a direction, even in difficult times. The musical journe...

Franco Cesarini has selected these 40 etudes of easy to medium difficulty from 12 different collections by six composers. He wanted to select the most "musical" etudes that, in addition to practicing...

Franco Cesarini has selected these etudes from those that are most technically useful and musically appealing. These etudes can be a good addition to the 40 Easy-Intermediate Studies for Flute. All et...

This collection will give you the opportunity to concentrate on all the technical and expressive aspects of flute playing, switching from 'brilliant' pieces to works with a more cantabile character, i...

It is often the case that at the end of a concert a soloist is requested to perform an additional item not listed in the programme, in other words an encore. In general the piece that is chosen is sho...

Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (De...

German Romanticism includes selected works from some of the most important composers of the style, to whom-in terms of musical history-the Austrian Franz Schubert also belongs. Besides Carl Maria von...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...

American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...

Following the great success of the Greek Folk Song Suite, which has endured for over twenty years, Franco Cesarini once again explores the long and rich tradition of Greek folk music. His Greek Folk S...

With Convergents Franco Cesarini has succeeded in composing a piece suitable for both concerts or contests which whilst not being too difficult still has the feel of a major work. This extremely rhyth...

Cesarini composed this work as a tribute to the memory of Darius Milhaud, born a century earlier in Aix-en-Provence, France. The premiere, conducted by the composer, was presented by the Civic Philhar...

The leviathan, a demoniacal sea monster that appears as a dragon or serpent, is considered in the Old Testament to be the embodiment of evil. The defeat of the demon is prophesied in Isaiah 27:1: 'On...

The Cossacks are primarily known as a feared cavalrymen who defended the country with their soldiers in the 16th-18th centuries. The culture of the Cossacks includes wild cavalry and weapons games as...

Foreign culture - art, literature and above all music - have long fascinated Franco Cesarini and often serve as a source of inspiration for his compositions. For Old Russian Romances, Cesarini immerse...

Bulgarian folk music has a long tradition and numerous typical characteristics, such as particular dissonances and complex, irregular rhythms. In Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (which can be performed tog...

Puss in Boots, a fairy tale character first mentioned in writing by Charles Perrault in the 17th century, is a popular figure in children's books, cartoons and comics. Franco Cesarini was inspired by...

Concertino for Clarinet and Wind Orchestra was commissioned by the Swiss Wind Band Association (SBV) to celebrate the 'Year of the Clarinet 2015'. In three sections, separated by cadenzas for the solo...