Concert band (1st Flute, 2nd Flute, Oboe*, 1st Bb Clarinet, 2nd Bb Clarinet, 3rd...(+)
Concert band (1st Flute,
2nd Flute, Oboe*, 1st Bb
Clarinet, 2nd Bb
Clarinet, 3rd Bb
Clarinet, Bb Bass
Clarinet*, Bassoon*, 1st
Eb Alto Saxophone*, 2nd
Eb Alto Saxophone*, Bb
Tenor Saxophone*, Eb
Baritone Saxophone*, 1st
Bb Trumpet, 2nd Bb
Trumpet, 1st F Horn, 2nd
F Hor) - grade 3
SKU:
CN.S11251
Composed by
Geoffrey Brand. Arranged
by Geoffrey Brand. Band
Music. Score only.
Duration 5:25. Published
by G & M Brand Music
Publishers (CN.S11251).
Originally
written for piano, Grieg
later scored his Holberg
Suite for orchestra.
Geoffrey Brand has done a
masterful job of setting
two movements of the
suite - the Sarabande and
Gavotte - for wind band.
Give your students the
opportunity to perform
first-rate classical
music they wouldn't
otherwise have access
to.
Born in
Bergen, Norway, into a
family of Scottish
descent, Edvard Grieg
showed a talent for music
early and at the age of
10 had piano lessons from
his mother. In 1849 he
went to study at Leipzig
Conservatoire before
moving to Copenhagen
where he met Riokaard
Nordaak, a young
Norwegian composer who
was immersed in Norwegian
nationalism and greatly
influence Grieg who felt
his future was as a
musician dedicated to
romantic nationalism.
Holberg Suite, originally
for piano, was written in
1884 in response to a
commission to mark the
bicentenary of the birth
of Ludvig Holberg, a
Norwegian dramatist and
satirist. A year later,
Grieg arranged 5
movements for string
orchestra. Sarabande and
Gavotte are intended to
be played segue but can,
if desired, be performed
separately. The music
expresses Grieg and his
native Norway in a manner
which justifies his
declaration I am not an
exponent of Scandinavian
music but of
Norwegian..
Gavotte: 1st F Horn
