The Dance of the Seven Veils is a famous, suggestive dance scene from Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, often depicted as a striptease in which the biblical princess Salome removes seven veils before her stepfather Herod, made influential by Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play. This dramatic dance leads to the demand for the head of John the Baptist.
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| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Grade | 4ยฝ |
| Duration | 8 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | โ Download |
โThe Village Schoolโ a frivolous and colourful overture for wind band. The work, originally for orchestra (titled as โRegalo Festivo Ouvertureโ) was commissioned by the University Orchestra Maastricht and serves as a prelude to its concerts.
This version for wind band is also freely inspired by Jan Steen’s painting “the village school”, in which the everyday chaos within a classroom can be felt.
It is also a reference to the connection with the university, where students experience their hopefully best time of their lives that eventually leads to a successful career.
In the work, the various musical themes develop into a grand apotheosis.
| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Grade | 5ยฝ |
| Duration | 9 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | โ 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 Berliozโs 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.
‘Pater Noster’ (our Father) by the Russian composer Nikolai Kedrov is a short but deeply moving chorus of the most famous Christian prayer. The work is an example of the Russian vocal tradition: simple in design, but rich in sound and emotion.
Nikolaj Kedrov, founder of the famous Kedrov Vocal Quartet, emigrated to France after the Russian Revolution. ‘Pater Noster’ was composed around 1922 during his exile in Paris.
It is an intimate. personal and inner prayer rather than a liturgical proclamation.
A beautiful arrangement for the sound and colour of a wind orchestra.
| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Grade | 4,5 |
| Duration | 7 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | โ not available yet |
Score and parts are available from May 2026
commissioned by Windband St. Agnes Bunde on the occasion of the festive opening of the โAgnespoortโ in Bunde (NL)
A short festive overture on the occasion of the festive opening of the “Agnespoort” in Bunde (NL). The work is based on two motifs that relate to the village of Bunde and its wind orchestra St. Agnes Bunde.
The work opens with a motif based on the song “Gans Bung” (which means โwhole Bundeโ) with a driving and powerful accompaniment.
The second motif is based on an “Andante Religioso”composed by one of the former conductors of Harmonie St. Agnes Bunde, Mr. August Hautvast.
After this short but sparkling opening, a more subdued section follows in which the musical link to the Patron Saint “St. Agnes” is made.
The overture ends with a resume of all motifs, resulting in a spectacular ending.
| Instrumentation | Orchestra |
| Grade | 4 |
| Duration | 10 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | โ download |
Composed on behalf of the Roermond Orchestra “De Symphonie”, in memory of all victims of war(s), on the occasion of 80 years of annual national commemoration in the Netherlands of the victims of the Second World War on May 4.
The work makes a musical link with the present, in which geopolitical tensions are increasing and history threatens to repeat itself.
The work will have its premiere on May 4, 2025 by the Roermond Orchestra “De Symphonie” conducted by the composer.
Score and parts;
The Piet Hein Rhapsodie was originally written by Peter van Anrooij for Symphonic Orchestra. This rhapsody is based on a well known Dutch song about the conquest of the Silverfleet.
This arrangement is written for wind quintet and was commissioned by NJON (National Youth Orchestra Netherlands).
Publisher: Janssen Music
| Instrumentation | Wind Band |
| Bb solo clarinet | |
| Grade | 5ยฝ – (soloist): 6 |
| Duration | 16 minutes |
| Publisher | Janssen Music |
| Demo Score | โ Bb solo clarinet โ Demo Score |
Divertimento is a concerto for clarinet and wind orchestra freely inspired by portraits of Frans Hals.
Frans Hals (๏นก1582/83 – โ๏ธ 1666) is one of the most important painters from the Dutch Golden Age. He is especially appreciated for his loose touch and lively portraits of contemporaries, genre scenes and colorful militia pieces.
As early as the 17th century, people were struck by the liveliness of Hals’ portraits. Hals’ works contain such power and life that it seems as if the painter “seems to challenge nature with his brush”.
In this Divertimento, the solo clarinet takes us into an imaginary story behind the painting, in which the person in question plays the leading role. After a short introduction, a colorful parade of people and their stories is created based on these portraits;
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