Partitions moyen chez Molenaar Edition

Here's at last a nice new piece of music for your Christmas concert: Michael W. Smith composed this enchanting music in the style of John Williams' film music for E. T. and Harry Potter. Henk Ummels s...

This composition by Andrew Pearce was commissioned by the French television channel TF1, to celebrate the end of the year's festivities. This bright and festive piece features euphonium soloists with...

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

A tasteful mix of christmas standards, surprisingly arranged by one of our greatest composers.

Everybody knows the very popular song 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo', actually a thirteenth century French carol called 'Les Anges dans nos Campagnes' (The angels in our countryside). Jef Penders (1928) wro...

Feliz Navidad (en espagnol "Joyeux Noël") est l'un des chants de Noël les plus populaires d'Amérique latine et a été interprété par de nombreux artistes (comme José Feliciano). Ce morceau en forme de...

Why not take a plane to Rio de Janeiro to celebrate Christmas and dance a samba to the tune of Jingle Bells Goes Rio close by the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain? The extremely popular American song Jingle...

English Christmas Festival est le résultat d'un défi de Kew Wind Orchestra - écrire un medley de Noël sans chevauchement avec le Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival. Il est basé sur six chansons anglais...

Here is a pleasing pastorale based on the traditional Christmas Carol 'On Christmas night all Christians sing' and with a quotation of 'Silent Night, Holy Night'. This piece will bring a moment of rel...

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The Dutch composer Meindert Boekel (Amsterdam, 1914 - Hilversum, 1989) became famous because of the Scherzo from his 'Suite Classique' already published by Molenaar Edition in 1948. Boekel was, no dou...

Also extremely popular is the song 'Adeste Fidelis' (Come you faithful), originally a 18th century Portuguese Christmas carol, arranged for band by Jef Penders.

In France there has been for many centuries a very old and rich tradition of Christmas carols. One of those immortal carols undoubtedly is the 'Can-tique de Noël', also known as 'Minuit Chrétien', com...

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...

Bach arranged quite a lot of both his own music and that of others for all kind of instrumental combinations. Sometimes he also used the same tunes in several of his works. This 'Berceuse' (Lullaby) i...

This musical whimsy is based on the well known folk tune Turkey in the Straw. After the introduction we meet our friend as we all know him from the folk tune.At Moderato we catch the turkey in a melan...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...

Here is a pleasing pastorale based on the traditional Christmas Carol 'On Christmas night all Christians sing' and with a quotation of 'Silent Night, Holy Night'. This piece will bring a moment of rel...

Christmas in the Alps enchants people because of the very special atmosphere with a combination of attentive silence and the blue shining moonlight. At Christmas time, one can often hear in the distan...

The famous Christmas song 'Winter Wonderland' (1934) was composed by Felix Bernard (1897-1944) and the lyricist was Richard B. Smith. Probably the most popular versions of this classic Christmas song...