Wintertaferelen / Winter Scenes
Music for Fanfare Band,

Wintertaferelen / Winter Scenes

InstrumentationGradeDurationPublisherDemo Score
Fanfare Band515 minutesJanssen Music→ Download

Winter scenes (Wintertaferelen in dutch) is a three-movement work inspired by the seventeenth-century masterpieces of Hendrick Avercamp. It serves as a musical canvas depicting the Dutch winter during the Little Ice Age.

The Prelude tells the story of the icy, mysterious silence of a frozen river at sunrise. The Scherzo is a feverish, hectic, and virtuosic movement in which the people on the ice are portrayed through music. The work concludes with a universal chorale that evokes the warmth and sense of togetherness of a December evening.

This work was commissioned by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.

Winter Landscape – Hendrick Avercamp (17th Century)

Score & Parts are available from December 2026

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Echoes of Time
Music for Wind Band,

Echoes of Time

InstrumentationGradeDurationPublisherDemo Score
Wind Band513 minutesJanssen Music→ Download

Dedicated to everyone, in any way involved in the Hercules disaster on July 15th 1996.

Commissioned by Koninklijke Militaire Kapel ‘Johan Willem Friso’.

Echoes of Time is a symphonic poem composed on the occasion of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Hercules disaster on July 15th 1996.

The work consists of four consecutive parts. It opens with “Morning Light”, a colorful look back at the day it all happened. After a short introduction – where the dawning of the day turns into the grand opening theme – the story is told of the great musicians, in the prime of their lives, resuming the return journey after a successful performance by their “Fanfarekorps Koninklijke Landmacht” (FKKL).

Just as suddenly as a disaster can take place, the second part “Silence Fall” follows. After the drastic event – in which 34 musicians and crew members were killed and 7 seriously injured – it is as if time stands still for a moment. The music becomes still, as it were. A heartbeat illustrates the fight for the lives of the survivors and the dead are mourned in short recitatives. 

The third part follows consecutively and tells the story as a kind of dialogue between survivors/relatives and the dead. This “Cantilene” is a remembrance of the lost, where time softens the wounds but does not erase them. The part ends grandly, where, as it were, a tribute is paid to all the victims. 

In the final part “Permanent Echo”, the memories of the past are translated into a message that leaves a sense of hope and remembrance.

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Le Carnaval Romain / Hector Berlioz
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Le Carnaval Romain / Hector Berlioz

InstrumentationWind Band
Grade5½
Duration9 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ Download

Le Carnaval Romain (Roman Carnival Overture), Op. 9 was composed by Hector Berlioz in 1843 and first performed at the Salle Herz in Paris on 3 February 1844. It is nine minutes of dashing music, orchestrated in Berlioz’s brightest colors, originally intended as the prelude to the second act of his opera Benvenuto Cellini. After the more or less debacle of the opera Berlioz reused the music as a stand-alone overture intended for concert performance and was a resounding success.

In this transcription the original color of instrumentation by Berlioz is maintained. 

A great and challenging overture for wind orchestras.

Suite de Ballet / Gustav Holst
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Suite de Ballet / Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst’s ‘Suite de Ballet’ (Op. 10) is an orchestral work he composed in 1899. It is one of his lesser-known works, but it shows an interesting use of orchestration and rhythmic variations. The suite is inspired by dance music, although it was not specifically intended to accompany a ballet. The ‘Suite de Ballet’ is rich in orchestral textures and offers a variety of rhythms and styles, from playful and light to more serious and dramatic. It’s part of Holst’s search for a style of his own, in which he combined elements of traditional English music with more modern influences.

The ‘Suite de Ballet’ consists of four movements: 1. ‘Danse Rustique’, 2. ‘Valse’, 3. ‘Scene de Nuit’, 4. ‘Carneval’. Although it is not one of Holst’s best-known works, such as ‘The Planets’, it shows the composer’s versatility and his skill in creating compelling orchestral music.

Publisher: → Baton Music

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(Re)Connected
Music for Wind Band, Transcriptions for Wind Band,

(Re)Connected

InstrumentationWind Band
Grade5
Duration16 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Scoreon demand

… is a musical adventure for concert band, commissioned by the “Royal Military Band Johan Willem Friso” (NL) and their chief-conductor Major Tijmen Botma.

Due to the Covid pandemic, there have been hardly live performances by orchestras around the world for (sometimes more than) a year. With this work an attempt is made to make renewed contact with the numerous concert audience.

(Re)Connected is therefore a work in which famous melodies of grandmasters from the past are connected in a special way and in which a (renewed) interaction between musicians and the audience takes place.

The work opens with Toccata by Claudio Monteverdi from “Orfeo”. Subsequently, the 1st cello sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach takes a prominent place, with a quartet of musicians interacting with the material.

On the basis of the exhibited themes, a fugal structure develops in which new material is used from the Overture “Entführung aus dem Serail” and the final movement from “Die Kleine Nachtmusik” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

After this virtuoso intermezzo peace returns with the famous theme of the adagio from the 9th symphony (“from the new world”) by Anton Dvorak. From this develops a dramatic part based on main theme of Dvorak 9th.

After a brief recollection of Bach and the “(Re)Connected” motif, which is clearly discernible throughout the work, the finale begins based on the impressive theme “Ode to joy” from Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th symphony.

An interactive musical adventure in which musicians and audience are “reunited” with the so beloved grandmasters from music history.

Score and parts are available only on demand. Please contact us via the → Contact form.

Schlagoberswalzer / Richard Strauss
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Schlagoberswalzer / Richard Strauss

‘Schlagobers’ (‘Whipped Cream’), Op. 70, is a ballet in two acts with a libretto and score by Richard Strauss. Composed in 1921–22, it was given its première at the Vienna State Opera on 9 May 1924. Despite the fact that both the ballet and the later compiled suite were not an unqualified success, the ballet contained, according to the critics, at least a superb waltz. Nowadays we regularly find this ‘Schlagoberswalzer’ on all the major concert stages and it lives up to the title. Dutch arranger Christiaan Janssen transcribed this beautiful waltz now for Symphonic Band.

Publisher: → Baton Music

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Symphonie pour Orgue et Orchestre / Charles Widor
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Symphonie pour Orgue et Orchestre / Charles Widor

Charles Widor

Born in 1844, he soon became involved in organ music from home. He received organ lessons from his father and did so well that he was allowed to replace him when he was eleven years old. In 1863, on the advice of the French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, he moved to Brussels to study with Jacques- Nicolas Lemmens.

In 1870 he moved to Paris to become organist for 64 years at Saint-Sulpice, where the organ builder Cavaillé-Coll had placed his largest instrument. With one of the top organs to himself, he thought it was time to write a ‘new’ kind of organ music, the so-called organ symphony.

With his 10 symphonies he pushed both the organist and the organ to extremes. He was also a good pedagogue, passing on his knowledge as teacher of organ and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Symphonie pour Orgue et Orchestre

In 1880, the future king of England, Edward VII, requested that Widor compose a grand work for organ and orchestra to be performed in London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Using movements from his second and sixth symphonies for solo organ as the basis, Widor created a masterpiece that launched a renaissance in the organ/ orchestra combination, a legendary tour de force to the repertory for organ and orchestra.

This transcription was commissioned by Wind Orchestra Auletes Eindhoven (NL).