Willy Hautvast

(also available wind or fanfare band and 3 horns)

In Tchaikovsky's most popular opera, 'Eugen Onegin', the poet Lensky dies after a duel, caused by a misunderstanding about his fiancée. In this aria Lensky mourns the approaching loss of love and life...

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...

The Warsaw Concerto is a one movement piano concerto, composed as an important element for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight, and written by British composer, Richard Addinsell. The film's producers w...

For small windband: flute, clarinets, saxophones, 2 horns, baritone and tuba

À la Mémoire (En mémoire de ma femme). In Memory (In memory of my wife). With this composition I wanted to express my feelings over the enormous loss of my wife, who died in 2018 after 60 years of mar...

'Ases Tod' aus der Schauspielmusik zu Henrik Ibsens 'Peer Gynt' von Edvard Grieg.

'Where'er You Walk' ist eine wunderschöne Arie aus dem dramatischen Oratorium 'Semele' (HWV 58) von Georg Friedrich Händel.

Praeludium no. 4, BWV 556, is from '8 Short Preludes and Fugues' formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but probably composed by one of his students. It is originally a short prelude for organ....

This Ode to Joy is the choral finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, composed in 1823, using a poem written in 1785 by Friedrich von Schiller. During the Olympic Games of 1956, 1960 and 1964, Ode to Joy...

Fritz Kreisler was a violinist and composer and lived from 1875 to 1962. After a tour through the U.S. he studied medicine from 1889 to 1899, after which he resumed his violin career. Kreisler was one...

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...