Vincenzo Avallone was a musician and in 1902 founded the local band, the Banda dell'Associazione San Gennaro, and financed the instruments and uniforms.
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.
Piccola Sinfonia by Vincenzo Gallo (1861–1941), modern edition for concert band by David Whitwell (1937–). The composer of this lovely and elegant Sinfonia was Vincenzo Gallo who founded the civic band in Barletto, Italy, in 1882.
Composed by the most important musical figure in Revolutionary France, this unique work features the largest instrumentation from the era that gave birth to the modern band. In a new, detailed, critical edition by Dr. Adam Kehl.
This arrangement of the second movement for band by the composer himself was done on English paper and surfaced during the 1980s in a private collection in Sweden.
The anonymous Karlsruhe Sinfonia, c. 1690, modern edition by David Whitwell. This German Hautboisten example represents the first stage of the indoor ensemble in Germany. PDF Download – Instant delivery
This lyric and dramatic one-movement symphony was composed by Leon Karren, a distinguished band conductor of the French Division de Brest. A large number of his compositions were published in Paris, ca. 1881–1907.
Gaetano Parmegiani was a composer and conductor associated with the civic band at Montorio al Vomano, Italy, in 1852. This Sinfonia carries the inscription, “Bologna, 1896.”
Sinfonia in F Minor by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886), modern edition by David Whitwell (1937–). Ponchielli served as the conductor of the Cremona Civic Band, for whom he composed more than 70 original works and an equal number of transcriptions.
