Molenaar Edition

Bethena is the result of a fictive collaboration between Scott Joplin and Willy Hautvast. The piece was originally written for the piano, so the melody is to be found in the right hand part whereas th...

This composition includes a tribute to Gioacchino Rossini (with some quotations from his works hidden in the music). A beautiful waltz celebrates three heroines of Ripatransone with plenty of courage...

'Music for a Fanciful Story' was commissioned by the Symphonic band Mokuyougomi in Japan to celebrate the twenty-fourth anniversary of its annual concert. 'Music for a Fanciful Story' consists of four...

The concert waltz 'Das Romantische Mittelrheintal' (the romantic Middle Rhine valley) was composed by Manfred Schneider (who passed away on 18 November 2008) at the request of the mayor of his dwellin...

Who does not know this immortal classic of trad jazz? Why not throw an inflatable tiger in your concert hall?

The Cake Walk is, just like the Quickstep, the Schottisch, the 'Rag and the Quadrille, a popular American dance from the second half of the last century. Both the rhythmic and the melodic structure of...

Back to the thirties! Mr. Faust wrote an original light composition in the Ragtime idiom.

Back to the thirties... Since the Scott Joplin revival ragtime music has always been in. Revival Rag brings back to memory the music that was played during the Roaring Twenties in the U.S.A. That's wh...

The composer enjoys travelling around Europe by train. Trains have been his hobby since boyhood days - the days of steam engines. He saw a little train climbing the Col de la Croix Haute between Greno...