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June & July 2024 – Wildflowers of Western Europe

June & July 2024 – Wildflowers of Western Europe

With this musical wildflower bouquet, the Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg presents a sampling of original wind music from Western Europe. The music was all written in the last 10 years and represents three other countries (Netherlands, Belgium and France) and composers who have made significant contributions to the development of wind music in addition to their homeland of Germany. In addition, the orchestra is giving a young German composer the opportunity to write a work especially for this conference. We believe that through this contrasting program we will be able to give a musical showcase of wind music culture from Western Europe in Asia.

Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg (D) – Björn Bus, conductor

8 June 2024 – Deilingen (D)

9 June 2024 – Kronenzentrum – Bietigheim/Bissingen (D)

6 July 2024 – Hambrücken (D)

7 July 2024 – Göppingen (D)

19 July 2024 – 20th WASBE Conference Gwangju-Gyeonggi (South Korea)

Program: → Capriccio, and many more…

More info: → Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg (D), → Wasbe2024


Die schweigsame Frau – Richard Strauss

Die schweigsame Frau – Richard Strauss

‘Die schweigsame Frau’ (The Silent Woman), is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig. Strauss gave the overture the subtitle ‘potpourri’. The term denotes a medley of popular nineteenth-century melodies, ones that brass and coffee-house bands would have typically performed in Strauss’s day. Nevertheless, Strauss’s overture has little in common really with these; his motifs are brief fragments of melodies, and are often juxtaposed in a masterfully elaborated polyphonic fabric.

Publisher: → Baton Music

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Der Bürger als Edelmann – Richard Strauss

Der Bürger als Edelmann – Richard Strauss

‘Der Bürger als Edelmann’ is the German title of a play by Molière and an orchestral suite by Richard Strauss. The original French play is called ‘Le bourgeois gentilhomme’ and is about a wealthy merchant who would like to become a nobleman. The play was first performed in 1670 with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Strauss composed his orchestral suite in 1919 based on the music he had written between 1911 and 1917 for an adaptation of the piece by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The suite consists of nine movements in which Strauss used some of Lully’s themes, but gave them his own romantic twist. 

Publisher: → Baton Music

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