27 November 1860 - 16 April 1935

Ewald was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. He also collected andpublished Russian folk songs. Ewald?s professional life, like that of many of his musicalcontemporaries, was in an entirely different field; that of a civil engineer, in which heexcelled, being appointed in 1900 as professor and manager of the Faculty ofConstruction Materials at the Institute of Civil Engineers. Brass players however areindebted to him for something very different ? a series of quintets which have becomea staple of the repertoire and which represent almost the only, and certainly the mostextended examples of original literature in the Romantic style. Ewald?s formal musicaltraining began in 1872 when he enrolled at the St Petersburg Conservatory at the ageof twelve. Founded in 1861 by Anton Rubenstein, this institution was the first of itskind in Russia and it was here that Ewald received lessons in cornet, piano, horn,cello, harmony and composition.As an adult he worked alongside fellow musicalnationalists known collectively as the Mighty Handful?Borodin, Mily Balakirev,

C�sar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and the most famous of all, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

All of these men had ?day jobs? in non-musical fields.
Ewald?s contributions as a composer reflected an abiding love for brass

instruments for which he wrote his quintets scored originally for two cornets, altohorn, baritone horn and tuba.

I've edited these four quartets using Ewald's original instrumentation, but thereare also separate substitute parts for the modern brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn in F,trombone and tuba).

1. F�r Elise by L. vanBeethoven 2. Marriage of Figaro by W.A Mozart 3. Musette in D by J.S Bach 4. Ode to Joy by L. van Beethoven 5. Rondo Alla Turca by W.A Mozart 6. Surprise Symphony by J. Haydn 7. Swan Lake by P.I Ceaikovsky 8. Lullaby by J. Brahms 9. Can Can by J. Offenbach 10. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W.A Mozart 11. Gymnopedie No. 1 by E. Satie 12.Gypsy Dance from Carmen by G. Bizet 13. Moonlight Sonata by L. van Beethoven 14.Morning Mood by E. Grieg 15. Anitra's Dance by E. Grieg 16.Hungarian Dance No. 5 by J. Brahms 17. Lascia Ch'io Pianga by G. Haendel 18. Night on Bald Mountain by M. Mussorgsky 19.Scheherezade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 20.Symphony No. 5 by L. van Beethoven 21.The Swan by C. Saint-Sa�ns