Advanced Sheet Music for Concert Band

Pavane pour une infante defunte (Pavane for a dead (Spanish) princess was composed for piano by Maurice Ravel, aged 24 in the year 1899. Ravel composed the version for symphony orchestra in 1910. It's...

Here is the last movement of the largest symphony by Gustav Mahler, the Symphony number 3, in a fine arrangement for symphonic band. This enables wind band players to enjoy one of the most beautiful c...

The opera or 'farsa comica' in one act 'La Scala di Seta' (The Silken Ladder) by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was first performed at the 'San Moisé' theatre in Venice on 9 May 1812. It is the story...

The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ball...

The suite Pines of Rome is the second orchestral work in Respghi's Roman trilogy. This suite was composed for symphony orchestra in 1923, depicts various places throughout Rome, where pine trees grow....

Towards A New Life (Josef Suk) was written in 1919 as a patriotic march, dedicated to the young Czechoslovakian army. In the same year he submitted this work to a composition competition where this ma...

In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect...

Berlioz wrote the Hungarian March in 1846, which he later in the year included in his large work, The Damnation of Faust. The march was written on the advice of those Berlioz had told how the Hungaria...

Britannica is inspired by Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches. A playful, varied introduction leads to the majestic main theme, recalling the heyday of the British Empire. It is played initia...

Benvenuto Cellini was the first opera from the French composer Hector Berlioz. After reading the memoires of the 16th century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz had a strong feeling of connection and...

Thirty years after the release of the first part of Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, Johan de Meij presents a breathtaking sequel. This brand-new three-part suite for concert band is not a repeti...

Thirty years after the release of the first part of Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, Johan de Meij presents a breathtaking sequel. This brand-new three-part suite for concert band is not a repeti...

Quatre petits morceaux montés à poire et tournés en tous sens is the orchestration of some of Erik Satie's music. The choice of original pieces is not limited to the best-known ones but spans the auth...

Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge ist ein beeindruckendes Stück aus dem Zyklus "Bilder einer Ausstellung" von M. Mussorgski, präsentiert in der bewährten Blasorchesterausgabe von Uwe Krause-Lehnitz. Die...

Eine Nacht auf dem Kahlen Berge ist ein beeindruckendes Stück aus dem Zyklus "Bilder einer Ausstellung" von M. Mussorgski, präsentiert in der bewährten Blasorchesterausgabe von Uwe Krause-Lehnitz. Die...

Geroges Bizet erhielt als 34 jähriger den Auftrag zu dem Drama 'L'Arlésienne' von Alphonse Daudet eine Bühnenmusik zu schreiben. Aus finanziellen Erwägungen sollte das Werk nur für eine kleine Besetzu...

Richard Wagner, 1813 in Leipzig geboren, wandte sich mit zwanzig Jahren der Theaterlaufbahn als Kapellmeister und Opernkomponist zu. Die Städte Würzburg, Magdeburg, Riga, Paris, Dresden, München sind...

Aus dem Zyklus der 'sechs Londoner Sinfonien'. Haydn konnte im Londoner Sinfonieorchester mit einem beachtlichen Anteil an Bläsern rechnen, so dass die Originalpartitur der Sinfonie eine komplette 'kl...

Transkription eines Orgelwerks des norddeutschen Bach-Vorläufers Dietrich Buxtehude. Brillante Toccatenteile mir ihren virtuosen Tonleiterfiguren. Dreiklangbrechungen und Akkordrepetitionen umrahmen e...

Nicht zuletzt wegen der herrlichen 'Romance', einer Perle unter Mozarts Mittelsätzen, ist dieses Werk sehr beliebt. Die hervorragende Bearbeitung von Albert Loritz orientiert sich sehr streng an Mozar...

Der tschechische Komponist Pavel Stanék wurde 1927 in Prag geboren. Dort studierte er auch bis 1950 am Konservatorium und war von 1950 bis 1954 Chorleiter des Folklore-Ensembles. Im Rahmen des Militär...

Leopold Kozeluh (1747-1818) came from Welwarn in Bohemia and received his first lessons from his cousin Antonín. Although he studied law in Prague, he then turned to music and went to Vienna in 1778 a...