Trumpet and organ

The Romance for piccolo trumpet and organ is one of the compositions that I have intentionally written in a purely romantic style, according to the wishes of some music lovers. It is a "salon piece" in ABA form in melodic-harmonic style. It is an... Read more

Preisungen was composed in 1989 by Heinz-Martin Lonquich. He dedicated the work to Britta and Markus Stockhausen on their wedding. To describe it in a perfunctory manner, one could say that Preisungen is a four-movement work conceived as a duo with... Read more

For Cam was written to honor the memory of Cameron Jack Benjamin, who lost his valiant battle against Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia on November 15, 2010, shortly after his 7th birthday. Cam’s sweetness, humor, and love of music touched everybody... Read more

René Oberson dedicated "Homo Somniens" [the man who dreams] to the trumpeter Jean-François Michel, who commissioned the work. The subtitle: "Man does not live, he is lived by his dreams, his chimeras ...". The titles of the four dreams are... Read more

The present edition of the Elegie for Trumpet and Organ op. 12 by Hermann Ley is based on the oldest known score, published in 1911 by Otto Junne in Leipzig, now out of print. Read more

The piece lasts hardly a minute, yet in this time it perfectly sums up the quintessence of the trumpet. Italian florid melody is exquisitely combined with French ornamentation and elegance. Read more

Cast in four contrasting movements, the first is highly festive and rhythmic with much inter-play between trumpet and organ. The second, a sleek scherzo, features fanfare-like trumpet calls over a constantly-changing luxuriant bed of pulsating... Read more

Tenebrae literally means "Service of Darkness" and is a solemn Christian ceremony presented on the night of Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday.  The music reflects this solemnity. Read more

My feelings and involvement with this work run very deep. I meant to represent the spiritual path of our human nature. Each one of the three movements were inspired by verses from biblical Psalms, and expresses a mood. Read more

Thoughts is a work which explores the different color combinations of the trumpet/flugelhorn when combined with organ. Although there are moments when the pace quickens, in general Thoughts is essentially quite and meditative. The opening solo, with... Read more

It is a reflective and brooding sort of piece, at times dark and dramatic, and at other times positive and almost spiritual. Read more

The calm musical interrogative calls of the Introduction serve as invitations to peaceful and spiritual listening. Evocation I is inspired by the Gregorian Chants as introduced into the liturgy by Pope Gregory I during the 6th century. Evocation II... Read more

It is known that Handel enjoyed beautiful melodies often borrowing from earlier works of his own, and occasionally from other composers, e.g., Francesco Antonio Urio, maestro of the Church of the Twelve Apostles in Rome (1690). This work was... Read more

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the composer's favorite since childhood. His destiny touched him deeply: A childhood with a difficult father, the loss of his mother, bad luck with women, progressive deafness, and much solitude. Nevertheless, he was... Read more

This transcription of Dietrich Buxtehude's chorale prelude "0 Come, Holy Ghost" is a beautiful selection of music by a great Baroque composer. He is most widely known for his settings of older liturgical song texts to more absolute music suitable... Read more

Now attributed to Johann Ludwig Krebs Read more