Feierabend
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Feierabend (after work hours) is one of the most famous folk songs from the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). It was written by popular poet and singer Anton Guenther (1876-1937). He is considered the ...
The Book of Love
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In 1999, American singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt released his song "The Book of Love" on CD 69 Love Songs. In the almost spartan-looking original version of Merit's uncut vocal presentation is accompanied only by a guitar. The English ...
Von guten Mächten
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Ein Novum in der Geschichte des beliebten Freiluft-Festivals WOODSTOCK der Blasmusik fand am 30. Juni 2019 im oberösterreichischen Ort im Innkreis statt. Während eines gemeinsamen Gottesdienstes auf dem Festivalgelände erklang in einer ...
The Sound Of Silence
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"The Sound of Silence" is a song by the famous American folk rock duo "Simon & Garfunkel". It did not attract much attention when it first appeared on the album "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." in 1964, but only one year ...
Abendmond
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This little nocturne “Abendmond” (evening moon) combines two German folk tunes: “Abend wird es wieder” (It’s evening again) and “Der Mond ist aufgegangen” (The moon has risen). I present the tunes both ...
Andulka Marsch
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The gymnastics organization “Sokol” fostered Czech national ideas in an especial way. The majority of the Czech population then lived in Central Bohemia where Kolin is located. There these new ideas fell on particularly fertile ground. In ...
Berliner Luft
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“Berliner Luft” (Berlin Air) was originally a march song that appeared and was premiered in a burlesque of the same name by Paul Lincke in 1904. Soon after this, the composition became successful as an independent piece of music which was ...
Feuerfest!
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Josef Strauß (1827-1879) comes from the famed Austrian Strauß family. His father was Johann Strauß, his older brother Johann Strauß (son) and his younger brother Eduard Strauß. All three sons were great composers, but Josef ...
Dachovská Polka
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The popular "Dachovská Polka" by Josef Flegl is a classic in wind band literature, composed in the tradition of the great Czech concert polkas. This lovely ...
Alpenwelt
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This sonorous March written bei Anton Ulbrich is from the repertoire of Roland Kohler and his groupt Neue Böhmische Blasmusik. The beautiful melody of the trio part makes "Alpenwelt" a real catchy tune. This march deserves to be a steady ...
Pomp and Circumstance No. 4
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The five marches from the series “Pomp and Circumstance” op. 39 surely belong to the most famous compositions by British composer Edward Elgar. He wrote them between 1901 and 1930. The series’ first march with the lyrics “Land of ...
Vita pro Musica
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The composition “Vita pro Musica”, meaning “a life for music”, was written in winter of 2015 to celebrate the 60th birthday of Ernst Oestreicher, chief conductor of the Northern Bavarian Music Association, and director of the ...
Kaiserin Sissi
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Timo Dellweg wurde 1979 in Idar-Oberstein geboren. Bereits im Alter von sechs Jahren erhielt er Musikunterricht in Trompete und Klavier. Beim Wettbewerb »Jugend musiziert« wurde er zwei Mal Bundespreisträger. Von 2001 bis 2005 ...
Guten Abend, gute Nacht
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Alexander Stütz (*1992) erhielt seine musikalische Ausbildung an der Musikschule Aalen und wurde von Stefan Spielmannleitner im Fach Trompete ausgebildet. Viele verschiedene Stilrichtungen prägen mittlerweile seine musikalische Laufbahn - von ...
The Way Old Friends Do
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The Way Old Friends Do” is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA. The live recording of a concert in 1979 appeared on the successful album “Super Trouper” (1980). While singing this song, the four ABBA members stood at the edge of the stage ...
Mango Walk
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Rumba is a couple dance, originating from the isle Cuba, adopted as ballroom dance by many industrial countries. The communication between the two partners is very characteristic. The dancers seem to flirt with each other, they court and tease each ...
Jump and Joy
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German composer Markus Götz wrote this modern overture “Jump and Joy” as a thoroughly joyous piece for concert band. Cheerful and bright rock melodies with staccato effects and dynamic syncopations radiate an optimistic energy in the ...
Stets treu!
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Sebastian Sürgers (*1982) learned to play flute in the local music school and had his first experience as a musician and conductor in the community band. After doing his service with the military band in Dusseldorf he studied tuba at the Vocational ...
Latino Mallets
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Latin music is characterized by strong use of particular percussion instruments such as congas, agogos, cowbell, guiro, claves and others. In Stefan Schwalgin’s Medley “Latino Mallets”, those instruments form the rhythmic and tonal ...
A Sign For Freedom
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The hymn “A Sign for Freedom“ is a musical plea for peace and freedom by young Austrian composer Thomas Asanger. The strong German and Austrian sentiment to support refugees from various conflict areas is a great sign of tolerance and ...
Prager Burg
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"Around the Prague Castle" (Okolo Vyšehradu) is one of those typically Czech marches that are unmistakably embedded in the colorful folklore tradition of their home country. It boasts a clear melodic line as well as colorful figurations ...
Polka Italienne
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Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergeij Rachmaninow (1873-1943) is regarded as one of the most versatile musicians of his time. He wrote symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, tone poems, operas and songs. As concert pianist he was in ...
So schön ist Blasmusik
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“So schön ist Volksmusik” by Erich Becht is the catchy theme song of the Grand Prix der Volksmusik held annually between 1986 and 2010. Artists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and later also South Tirol participated in the ...
Bohemian Gallop
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The musical gallop is a fast folk dance in 2/4 time that enjoyed great popularity in the ballrooms of the early and mid 19th century. The dance was either a sidewise galloping or a fast circular dance with the step sequence of a polka. Alfred ...
Dankeschön und auf ein Wiederseh'n
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Zu unserem 260-jährigen Jubiläum hat Toni Müller die Polka „Dankeschön und auf ein Wiederseh’n“ für uns komponiert, mit einem passenden Text von Charly Stingl. Bei unserem Bezirksmusikfest überreichen wir ...
Aria d'Amore
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Florian Ziller wrote his “Aria d’ Amore” as a heartfelt declaration of love. A compelling melody passes amongst different instruments and tonal colors of the band. The atmosphere of the composition is both gentle and powerful – ...
Kein schöner Land
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The Allgäu composer and conductor Kurt Gäble is known for his devotion to his homeland, for his close relationship with nature and for his conscientious way of living. For this reason the 6th district Marktoberdorf of the ...
You Raise Me Up
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This lovely melody became famous because of the singer Josh Groban and the group Westlife who did their own versions of the song. "You raise me up" invites you to a musical dreamworld. Heinz Briegel kept his arrangement very close to the ...
Coming Home
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" Coming home" - that's pleasant anticipation about returning to a familiar place with beloved people because that is where we are home. We have the same feeling when spending time with embosomed persons or at personally meaningful places; ...
Schlittenfahrt in den Alpen
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Alfred Bösendorfer takes us along on a nice and entertaining sleighride, with neighing horses and jingling bells through the white winterly alps, between snow-covered trees and over snowy meadows. Your audience will love that scenic composition. ...
Die lustigen Dorfschmiede
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Reading the title of this piece, namely “The Happy Village Smiths” it rather suggests a character piece than a zestful march. However, the saying “Don’t let yourself be fooled” also applies in this instance, as “The ...
Wir Musikanten
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Kurt Gäble's Polka is a true hit of polka music and bribes with its tender lyrics, meaning: "We are musicians, bond for life through playing and singing together. We are musicians, having harmony in our blood. Music makes us ...
Guten Abend, gut' Nacht
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In all of Brahms’ music, the singable main theme immediately appeals to people. I comes from inside and is the direct expression of the composer’s personality. In a letter to Clara Schumann he revealed his entire persofnality in one ...
Grandfather's Clock
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Variationen über die bekannte Volksweise „Grandfather's Clock" (Großvaters Uhr) als Solo für Piccolo-Flöte (Eb-Klarinette) und Euphonium (Bariton / Tenorhorn / Horn / Fagott / Bassklarinette) und ...
Xylo Classics
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When planning concerts, the question arises in most instances, what to select as an encore or what to program when you want to present a soloist in the band. The xylophone very often is the instrument to be featured in such cases.
The ...
Don Quixote
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For a long time, the composer Theodor Rupprecht (1873-1934) was thought to be an Austrian among band researchers. What really triggered this assumption, nobody knew for sure. On the occasion of more complex efforts to trace down data on this ...
Hornblowers Farewell
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Thomas Berghoff wrote "Hornblowers Farewell" after watching a motion picture, which centered on the life of soldiers, friendship, loyalty and comradeship. Just imagine that moving moment when the bugler sounded taps – a call to bid ...
Hymne an die Freundschaft
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"Hymne an die Freundschaft" ("Hymne to Friendship) is based on the folk tune "Wahre Freundschaft" ("True Friendship"). Karl Kling, president emeritus of the Allgäu-Schwäbische Musikbund, commissioned this ...
Alte Kameraden
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It is the greatest tragedy in the life of a young composer if he happens to write his most successful piece at the beginning of his musical career. This holds true for Carl Teike, as the unsurpassed success at the beginning of his musical life was ...
Radetzky-Marsch
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General Radetzky was commanding general in Milan when the Italian subjects of the Lombardic Kingdom revolted against Austria in the spring of 1848. This upheaval set in motion the course of events that eventually made Radetzky the most popular army ...
Fliegermarsch
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Hermann Dostal was born in Strelice in northern Moravia. He grew up in a musical environment and then studied at the conservatoires of Prague and in Vienna. Dostal entered military service, presumably as an apprentice musician with Infantry Regiment No. ...
Auld Lang Syne
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Today this famous song from Scotland is generally attributed to Robert Burns (1739-1796) although the exact extent of his responsibility for the words and the music has always been controversial. However, it is generally agreed that he was not the ...
Trepak
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Russian Dance from the ballet "The Nutcracker"
The production of the three great Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ballets in St. Petersburg represents the supreme expression of the classical dance and thus ...
Abschied der Gladiatoren
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It is virtually impossible today to determine when Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (1876-1956) composed his march ”Germany’s Princes”. Relying on remarks by the composer, however, it may be assumed that it was written between 1901 and 1903 during the ...
Galop Bajadérek
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The Galop Bajadérek had been originally composed as a small piano piece, a fast polka in fact, and a stylisation of the fiery dance of the harem ...
Slavia Galopp
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The "Slavonic Gallop" (Slavia Galopp) by Zdenek Lukás is a wild and energetic piece of music Its vitality is by accurate articulation and a precise differentation of dynamics.
Zdenek Lukaš (1928-2007) has already ...
Marsch der Komödianten und Springtanz
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Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), hat seine zweite Oper "Die verkaufte Braut" nach einem Libretto von Karel Sabina komponiert. Die Uraufführung fand am 30. Mai 1866 im Interimstheater in Prag statt.
Die heitere Begebenheit oder eher Anekdote über die ...
Slawischer Tanz Nr. 8
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The two series of »Slavonic Dances« (op.46 and 72), each of them consisting of eight numbers, belong to the most famous works of Antonín Dvorák (born 8. Sep. 1841 in Muehlhausen/Moldau, † 1. May 1904 in Prague). The ...
Zirkus Humberto
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The inspiration for my piece „Zirkus Humberto“ was not, as often presumed, the same-named novel by Eduard Bass, but rather my own childhood experiences, when I hardly missed any circus guesting in Prague. I admired the precision, bounce and ...
Trojak
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Troják is a Walachian dance (Walachia is a part of Northern Moravia). It alternates between two-four time and three-four time and an practical joke the musicians play on the dancers.
Boris Hajdušek's "Troják" is of virtuosic character, not ...
Abschied der Slawin
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Vasilij Agapkin was born in the vicinity of Ryazan. Later his parents moved to Astrakhan, but died soon after. The juvenile orphan thus was forced to lead a street urchin’s life until he was accepted into the band of the 308th Reserve Battalion in ...
Einzug der Gladiatoren
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Julius Fucik, the famous march composer, was born in Prague in 1872. One of his most popular Marches "Einzug der Gladiatoren" (Entry of the Gladiators) was written in 1899. From 1910 to 1913, Fucik was kapellmeister of the infantry regiment 92 ...
Gopak
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Aram Chatschaturjan (1903-1978) is one of the most famous composers of the former Soviet Union. Born at the Southern border of the UDSSR, in Armenia, he studied Music in Moscow from 1922 to 1937. From 1938 he received several awards and honorary ...