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June & July 2024 / Wildflowers of Western Europe
Concerts 2024

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…

Die schweigsame Frau / Richard Strauss
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

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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