Spartiti medio per Banda

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) was one of the great composers of the Italian operatic School, even though most of these productive years were spent in Paris. He has written these two marches for the c...

This powerful opening tune by the American composer Alfred reed was commissioned by the Rissho Kosei-kai Organization. The music is based on two contrasting groups of motifs. The first group consists...

Manfred Schneider (1953), musician with the German Army Band Heeresmusikkorps 300 in Koblenz, has already proved his merits with his overture 'Uspide Down', the 'Song of Freedom' and the rhythmical et...

The pianist and composer Enrique Granados y Campina (Lérida 1867) studied composition with Pedrell in Barcelona. He went to Paris in 1887 to study the piano with de Beriot. In 1901 he founded his own...

The Dutch pianist Laurens van Rooyen got famous in his country when this 'Great Parade' was featured for several weeks on the national hitparade. Marcel Peeters was the right man to make a wind band a...

Johann Strauß Junior wrote this 'Perpetuum Mobile' opus 257 in 1861, inspired by a grand Viennese Ball. This event had been announced as a 'Carnival Perpetuum Mobile' with non-stop dancing and music....

'Remerciements' (Thanksgivings) is the fourth religious composi-tion by Serge Lancen. It is a song of praise and thanksgiving, piously devoted to God. As the composer is very happy to live here on ear...

After the overwhelming success of his 'Second Symphony' Pjotr Tschaikowsky (Votkinsk 1840 - Saint-Petersburg 1893) got a request of the Imperial Theatre in Moscow early in 1873 to compose the stage mu...

Molenaar Edition has already published several arrangements by Josef Hastreiter as well as his thrilling concert piece 'Dancing Show'. This new very rhythmical compo-sition 'Six to Five' will certainl...

The German composer Manfred Schneider (Ketsert am Rhein, 1953) has played the French horn in the Koblenz Police Band for many years. His band compositions such as Rock and Go, Splashing Sounds and Son...

The American pianist and composer Howard Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael was considered the creator of the so-called 'white man's blues' which he mainly used as part of the music he wrote for a series of...

Piet Daalhuisen (Hilversum, 1939) was already known in the world of wind bands because of his medleys 'With a smile to the classics' and 'Pop for the People' (both in splendid wind band arrangements b...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.