Music by Josef Bönisch
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Josef Bönisch
Born
09.08.1935 in Saubernitz (Böhmen), Sudetenland
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Josef Bönisch studied at the Conservatory in Weimar and at the University of Music in Leipzig. As a flutist he was active in several orchestras and led various music groups. From 1976, Josef Bönisch was a teacher for flute, recorder and chamber music at the conservatory in the Handel city of Halle. His compositional output includes works for wind chamber music and a large number of original compositions for wind bands. For his artistic work he received, among other things, the Pestalozzi Medal in silver, the Badge of Honor for services in artistic folk creativity, the Sudeten German Culture Prize 1999, the composition prize "Wind Music 2000" of the Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria and in 2006 the composition prize for beginner literature.
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Rapsodia Sajonia
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für Blasorchester / para Banda / for Concert Band
RAPSODIA SAJONIA, its title referring to Josef Bönisch’s Saxon roots (Sajonia = Saxony), is dominated by contemporary harmonies and rhythms as well as conventional symphonic sounds. The calm and solemn introduction features a euphonium solo theme later used by the entire ensemble. The following allegro demands a marked interpretation of the initial theme by all sections. Woodwinds can play the triplets alternately, hence more precisely. In the Moderato (measure 69) the clarinets introduce a second theme, which is subsequently taken by the rest of the band. After a short allegro transition (starting at measure 86) this second theme reappears as reprise in another key and tempo. With fancifully changing meters (3/4 and 2/4 alternating) an even more agitated RAPSODIA SAJONIA comes...
https://www.rundel.de/en/
für Blasorchester / para Banda / for Concert Band
RAPSODIA SAJONIA, its title referring to Josef Bönisch’s Saxon roots (Sajonia = Saxony), is dominated by contemporary harmonies and rhythms as well as conventional symphonic sounds. The calm and solemn introduction features a euphonium solo theme later used by the entire ensemble. The following allegro demands a marked interpretation of the initial theme by all sections. Woodwinds can play the triplets alternately, hence more precisely. In the Moderato (measure 69) the clarinets introduce a second theme, which is subsequently taken by the rest of the band. After a short allegro transition (starting at measure 86) this second theme reappears as reprise in another key and tempo. With fancifully changing meters (3/4 and 2/4 alternating) an even more agitated RAPSODIA SAJONIA comes...