Vincenzo Avallone was a musician and in 1902 founded the local band, the Banda dell'Associazione San Gennaro, and financed the instruments and uniforms.
Francesco Baccherini [early 19th century], Armonia, for Solo Flute, 2 solo clarinets, tutti clarinets, 2 bassoons, trombone. This score is three movements long and found in the Biblioteca Musicale Greggiati in Oestiglia, Italy.
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.
Belloli was principal horn at La Scala in Milan and professor of horn at the Conservatorio. A large number of his etudes for all the brass instruments are still in the repertoire.
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.
