Pasión por la Música
Music for Fanfare Band, Music for Wind Band,

Pasión por la Música

InstrumentationWind Band
Fanfare Band
Grade4
Duration6 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score
(Wind Band)		→ Download
Demo Score
(Fanfare Band)		→ Download

Pasodoble de concierto.

A concert pasodoble. Composed for anyone who loves music and my Spanish friends in particular.

Version for Windband:

Version for Fanfare Band:

Quadriptych
Music for Ensemble, Music for Piano or Organ,

Quadriptych

Quadriptych is as the title suggests a four-part piece and freely inspired by painting-art in common. Quadriptych are paintings with four different elements, atmosphere, color and emotion, but together they tell us just one story or theme.

In Quadriptych I tried to shape four different points of view, with just one single leitmotif (freely inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach). The motif doesn’t change (at least not very much) but the whole atmosphere, color, emotion and (musical) lines do. Just like the familiar painting art.

  1. Prelude – hectic and emotional
  2. Menuet – frivolous
  3. Fugue – fugitive
  4. Final – nostalgic

Quadriptych is commissioned by “Stichting Orgelkring Franciscus Huis Weert (NL)” and is composed for windensemble and organ.

Demo score: → Quadriptych

Publisher: Janssen Music

The Comedians / Kabalevsky
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

The Comedians / Kabalevsky

In 1939, Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky wrote incidental music for a children’s play called ‘The Inventor and the Comedians’, by the Soviet Jewish writer Mark Daniel. The play was staged at the ‘Central Children’s Theatre in Moscow and was about the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg and a group of travelling buffoons.

The ‘Suite from The Comedians’ is now one of his best known and best-loved works and in particular, the ‘Galop’ from this Suite belongs to Kabalevsky’s most famous pieces.

The Galop from The Comedians is available in a seperate edition.

Publisher: → Baton Music

explanation text: © Baton Music

La Gazza Ladra / Rossini
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

La Gazza Ladra / Rossini

Rossini’s ‘La Gazza Ladra’ (The Thieving Magpie) is a melodrama or ‘opera semiseria’ in two acts on a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ‘La pie voleuse’ by Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d’Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.

‘La Gazza Ladra’ is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. The unique inspiration in the melodies is extreme and invokes the image of the opera’s main subject: a clever, devilishly thieving magpie.

Publisher: → Baton Music

explanation text: © batonmusic

Die Lustige Witwe Overture / Franz Lehár
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Die Lustige Witwe Overture / Franz Lehár

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta ‘Die lustige Witwe’, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his talents to the operetta.

‘Die lustige Witwe’ was not only the start of a new flourishing period, it is also one of the absolute highlights in the whole operetta-repertoire.

The operetta originally had no overture but Lehár wrote one for the Vienna Philharmonic to perform at his 70th birthday concert in April 1940.

Publisher: → Baton Music
Demo score: → Die Lustige Witwe Overture