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Lodewijk Mortelmans was born in Antwerp on February 5, 1868, as second son of printer Karel Mortelmans. He died on June 24, 1952. He was an outstanding, universal Belgian musician and composer. His un...

Originally scored for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons, these two movements are attractively arranged for a standard wind quintet. A grand addition to many programs.

Hans Aerts (°1958) studied at the conservatory of Antwerp (clarinet), the conservatory of Brussels (counterpoint and fugue) and the Lemmens Institute in Leuven (composition). His oeuvre consists of ov...

for Wind Quintet. Composed while Grieg was visiting Norway's scenic fjords, these dances are built on a well-known collection of folk music by fellow Norwegian Ludvig Lindeman, with material added by...

Originally for piano, this characteristic Two-Step was composed by an amazing woman in the Ragtime era. Creatively arranged for flute and trombone, and a great crowd pleaser!

for Wind Quintet. This suite was inspired by the composer's two-year stay in the region of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee some fifty years ago. It is based on his composition for Flute Ch...

for Wind Quintet. Well, the title about says it all. This piece is quirky, jazzy, a lot of fun to play, and makes a great addition to the standard quintet repertoire. It is a hard piece to explain, so...

for Wind Quintet. Hassidic Medley; Meditation; Butcher's Dance Music based on the folk tunes and dances of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. Lots of fun for everybody and there is a great c...

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, is often referred to as 'The Granddaddy of Circus Marches.' Karl King was asked by the bandmaster of the Barnum and Bailey Circus to write a march for the circus, and thi...

for Soprano Saxophone and Trumpet. An innovative work composed for a unique combination of instruments. Written in three movements, the first, Vertical, focuses more on the virtuosity of the soprano s...

for Wind Quintet. Six short movemets (De Vienne, De l'Arabie, De la Bohême, De la Suisse, De la Grèce, De l'Afrique) written by Italian composer Leonello Capodaglio intended to conjure up...

The Fourth Movement consists of two charming Minuets scored principally for winds. This work, Brahms' first orchestral publication which was arranged by the composer for eight string and wind instrume...

Originally published in 1873 when Brahms was 40. He reputedly had destroyed twenty prior quartets as being unworthy of an heir to Beethoven's throne. ('You have no idea how a man like myself feels whe...

The composer's only string quartet to be published and publicly performed during his lifetime. All four movements arranged here by Mark Popkin. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet (in A), Horn, Bas...

Composed when Dvorak was 38 and had achieved international fame. The 2nd movement is a 'dumka,' a Slavonic form which consists of contrasting melodic and rhythmic sections. Instrumentation: Flute, Obo...

for Wind Quintet. Written in 1893, this is Debussy's only string quartet. This, along with 'Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune' (1892-94) and 'Baudelaire Songs'(1890), comprises Debussy's incipient mus...

for Wind Quintet. Written just 10 years after Debussy's Quartet, Debussy wrote Ravel, 'In the name of the gods of music and of my own, do not change one thing in your Quartet.' Four Movements total

Inspired by the piano waltzes of Franz Schubert, these were originally for piano and later orchestrated. A remarkable transcription of eight movements which blend seamlessly from one to another.

for Double Wind Quintet and Bass. As described by Clara Schumann: 'I cannot find words to express the joy it gives me; it is miraculously beautiful.' A major work for this unique ensemble. Five moveme...

Composed for piano solo and later arranged for small orchestra, this transcription contains seven movements and maintains all the solos from the orchestral version. Scored for Wind Quintet, the Flute...

for Wind Quintet. What would Broadway and Hollywood have done without Borodin? All four movements of this well-known work are well adapted to the woodwind quintet.

for Wind Quintet. One of the six 'Haydn' quartets, subtitled 'The Hunt' as suggested by its jolly, bouncing 6/8 rhythm of the opening subject. This happy mood is sustained through most of the work wit...

Originally published in 1865 for strings. A dedicatory phrase appears in the first movement - A-G-A-D-B-E - referring to a woman with whom Brahms fell in love named Agathe von Seebolt. The composer re...