Z-BTHS Wind Ensemble- Trauersinfonie

Trauersinfonie by Richard Wagner

Eighteen years after the death on London of Carl Maria von Weber, a patriotic movement in Germany resulted in the transference of his remains to his native land. In December of that year (1844) an impressive ceremony took place in Dresden, in which Wagner took a leading part. Besides reading the solemn oration, Wagner composed the march for the torchlight procession. This march, scored by Wagner for large wind band, was based on two themes from Weber's opera "Euranthe," and thus represented a musical homage to the earlier composer. The score remained unpublished until 1926, and the work has remained among the least known of all Wagner's compositions.

The Funeral Music was performed in a revised "concert" version by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Mengelberg in 1927. On that occasion, Herbert Peyser wrote in the New York Evening Telegram: "The effect of this music, magnificent and heart-breaking as it was...must have been overwhelming amid the solemnity of that nocturnal torch-light procession in the Dresden of 1844... For if the themes are Weber's, the creative imagination embodied in their sequence, their scoring, their exalted lament, is powerfully Wagner's..."


I am proud to present Z-BTHS's Wind Ensemble playing Richard Wagner's Trauersinfonie under the direction of Mr. Mark C. Rymer.

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