Vincenzo Avallone was a musician and in 1902 founded the local band, the Banda dell'Associazione San Gennaro, and financed the instruments and uniforms.
This wonderful, romantic composition by the nineteen-year-old Bach was written upon the departure of his elder brother, Johann Jacob Bach, to join the army of King Carl XII of Sweden as an oboist. It is a rare programmatic work for which Bach supplied the individual titles.
The extraordinary Chaconne exists as the fifth movement in an autograph Partita for solo violin, dating from 1720. Like some other early works of Bach, it is often Romantic and chromatic.
Prelude, BWV 922 by Johann Sebastian Bach, transcribed for concert band by David Whitwell. The Prelude, BWV 922, is an extraordinary example of minimalism. Bach's seemingly endless variations on so simple a figure is a textbook case of harmonic development.
This is a fine example of this form which was very popular in France in the nineteenth century. Bailton was the Chef de Musique au 127e [regiment] in France.
Siegessinfonie by Ludwig van Beethoven, modern edition for wind ensemble by David Whitwell. The original band composition survives in a presentation copy by Beethoven’s copyist, with the composer’s corrections and a title page entirely in his hand.
Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, Hector Berlioz, modern edition by David Whitwell. Berlioz composed his Symphony for Band in honor of Frenchmen killed in an uprising in 1830.
The "King Kong" of band music! Composed for band in 1842, the Reminiscences is a programmatic work detailing the life of Napoleon Buonaparte. 3546 bars and approximately 2 hours duration.
Kling was born in Paris, the son of a German father and a French mother. Well-known to modern horn students for his etudes, he was a professor at the Geneva Conservatory from 1865 to 1918.
