““Richard Strauss’s Music for Richard Strauss’s Music for Winds”Winds”

Scott WarfieldScott WarfieldUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of Central Florida

College Band Directors National AssociationCollege Band Directors National AssociationAnn Arbor, MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan29 March 200729 March 2007

Serenade, Op. 7 (TrV 106)mm 1-24 = First Theme

Serenade, Op. 7 (TrV 106)mm 122-129 = First Theme (recap)

“Gavotte” (opening mm.)from Suite, Op. 4 (TrV 132)

Sonatine für Bläser (TrV 288)mm 1-8 = First Theme (beginning)

Sonatine für Bläser (TrV 288)mm 9-16 = First Theme & Transition (cont’d)

Sonatine für Bläser (TrV 288)mm 17-23 = Transition (cont’d)

Sonatine für Bläser (TrV 288)mm 24-29 = Transition (cont’d)

Sonatine für Bläser (TrV 288)mm 30-33 = Transition (to cadence)

1st Garde Regiment Band(Potsdam, 1901)

Kaiser Wilhelm II mounted on white horse

Garde Fusilier Regiment Band(Berlin, 1903)

Badisches Grenadier Regiment Band(Karlsruhe, 1913)

Munich – MarienplatzNeue Rathaus (City Hall)

Munich – Feldherrnhalle (north of the Marienplatz, approx. 500 meters)

2nd Garde Dragoner Band(Berlin, 1903)

Garde-Ulanen Band(Potsdam, 1911)

Garde Kurassiere Band(Berlin, 1913)

German Military Music Directors

Max Högg (1845-1933)

Theodor Grawert (1858-1927)

Oskar Hackenberger (1872-1929)

Georg Fürst (1870-1936)

Sousa Band (1910)

Typical Program of the Sousa Band

The Program

Overture on Haydn’s Emperor Hymn (Westermeyer)

From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific (Clarke) [trumpet solo]

The Last Days of Pompeii, suite (Sousa)

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, tone poem (Strauss)

Interval

Peer Gynt, suite (Grieg)

Humoresque (Dvořák)

Caprice Slavonic (Geloso)

Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)

• Evening Concert

• 8 February 1908

• Urbana, Illinois

• University Auditorium

• NB. One or more encores (not listed on the printed program) were performed after each work.

• See Paul Bierley, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa, p. 286

Goldman Band Program(15 July 1923)

Goldman Band Program(30 June 1927)

Goldman Band Program

24 June 1933

Richard Strauss conducts the Barcelona Banda Municipal

19 March 1925

Richard Strauss on transcribing his works for military bands

“I agree … that my tone poem Tod und Verklärung is successful in an arrangement for military bands. I have personally attended or conducted several such performances of my symphonic works, for instance, in Naples, Barcelona or Venice. They are very suitable for wind bands, provided that the arrangements are made by experts and played with a sufficient number of instruments.”

–Strauss to an unknown correspondent (23 June 1936)[published in Eugen Brixel, “Original Band Compositions vs. Transcriptions,” Journal of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles 4 (1997): 8, 18 (facsimile)]