Sheet Music for Concert Band

This meditative work describes the final minutes before the night slips away and officially turns to day, the last few moments before a new dawn. The composition is based on the old Austrian folk tune...

Friends are of the utmost importance in any person's life. True friends can always count on one another, even if they don't meet up as often as they might wish. With Best Friends, the Belgian composer...

As with the first symphony, the second symphony is not programmatic as such, but also takes its inspiration from the confrontation of man with his role in nature. Dedicated to the 2011 National Garden...

Gerald Oswald's new composition, The Knight's Castle, takes listeners on a journey to the middle ages and introduces its inhabitants. After hearing the majestic introduction, a knight is seen riding t...

We find ourselves initially at the court of King Nobel, where all the animals have arrived for a court hearing. Reynard the Fox has plenty to answer for but he seems determined to avoid his punishment...

Atropos is one of the three goddesses of fate. Atropos cuts the thread of life of a person whenever their time has come. She works alongside Clotho, who spins the thread, and Lachesis who determines t...

The commission of the Pentaphonia Brass Quintet and the Haize Berriak Sakanako Musika Ekartea Concert Band from the Spanish Basque country was to write a piece for brass quintet and concert band. The...

The Golden Gryphon by Tom De Haes portrays three distinguished characteristics of this fascinating mythical beast: the gryphon as guardian of the divine mystery; the winged gryphon, pulling the chario...

In this work, the composer Gerald Oswald tells of the song and dance of the medicine man Buffalo. His songs and the sound of the drums are heard far off on the prairie. This ceremony serves to give th...

Mundus Novus ('New World') is a travelogue in the form of letters sent by the sailor and explorer Amerigo Vespucci in 1502 to the Florentine nobleman Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco di Medici. The life and d...

It can be neither seen nor heard, but it's ever-present and can make us ill or even kill us: this is the reality of atomic radiation. The most devastating nuclear catastrophes have doubtless been thos...

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...

In memoriam Sophie Scholl

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...

Richard, the composer's grandson, studies trumpet at the Tournai music academy in Belgium where his grandfather, André Waignein, holds the post of director. Stepping Stone was written by the grandfath...

Homeland was created to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Hohe Tauern National Park in the Austrian Alps. The many achievements in this largest reserve in the Alps include the reintroduction of th...

March of the Marmots describes the comical creatures that emerge from their winter slumber, at ­first soft and hesitant, then stridently march from their burrows into the sunlight. This piece is a nic...

African music can be hard to define, given the sheer variety it contains. However, certain characteristics can be described as typically African. For African Beat André Waignein made use of two such f...

What do Steve, Jobs, Marc Zuckerberg and Johannes Gutenberg have in common? They all represent a revolution in communications and information technology. Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz in 1400 a...

Underwater worlds, enchanted castles, rich and cold-hearted depots who chase the poor away, dark figures, revenge, Atlantis... such are the exciting motifs that emerge in Otto M. Schwarz' latest work...

In his solo piece for alto saxophone and concert band, Gerald Oswald presents a musical palette of landscapes, moods and human characters. The music reflects different and contrasting moods and lifest...

This fanfare stands for progress and the discovery of new horizons. But it also represents an expanding awareness while nurturing traditional values. These are the cornerstones of the Austrian music t...

Dogon whisks the audience off on a journey to the steep slopes of the Dogon Valley. Majestic brass sounds sketch the exotic culture of the Malian Dogon people. The Dogon see the valley as both a threa...

Stone Age, Middle Age and New Age are the three distinct sections of this single movement work at the highest level. Whilst Stone Age has a menacing and ancient atmosphere, an old German song can be m...