Willy Hautvast

This Italian song, known in the English version as 'Time to say goodbye', has been made famous by the blind Italian (Toscan) tenor Andrea Bocelli. The latter was introduced to the international musica...

Rudolf Friml studied composition with Antonin Dvoràk at the conservatory of music of his native town. He settled in the United States of America in 1906 after having spent already five years in the St...

The Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg is still popular because of his theatre music for Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' and his Piano Concerto opus 16. The suite 'Fra Holbergs Tid' (Holberg Suite) opus 40 was origi...

A lot of composers, such as Brahms, Rachmaninov, Lutoslavski and many others used the Caprice nr.24 for violin solo by Paganini, to write a series of variations. This time that favourite theme has bee...

The French composer Adam is famous for his operas such as, 'Le Roi d'Yvetot', 'La Poupée de Nuremberg' and 'Si j'étais Roi'. The overtures of most of these operas are still often performed by wind ban...

G. Ruiz is not a famous composer though his song Amor, Amor has become a world famous tune of the typical latin american repertoire. Willy Hautvast wrote a fine arrangement for wind band of this popul...

This work 'Music from the Menu' has been commissioned by the S.O.M.N.O. and was composed in 1975. It wants to suggest a dinner menu in a musical way. All parts are in perfect harmony as are the differ...

Cette oeuvre a été commandée en 1975 par l'organisme néerlandais S.O.N.M.O. et le compositeur a tenté d'évoquer un menu musical. Toutes les parties s'accordent bien, exactement comme tous les mets d'u...

Some critics doubt whether Bach really composed this choral. Anyhow, it will always remain a favourite transcription piece.

Elvis Presley, often known simply as Elvis and also called 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll' or simply 'The King', was an American singer, musician and actor. He remains a pop icon and is regarded as one th...

An adagio is a slow piece of music, somewhat quicker as a largo, but a little bit slower than an Andante. A lot of composers have written adagios, but, no doubt, the most famous is the Adagio in G min...

This song allowed Norway to win the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest. As the title suggests, let it swing and go ahead!