Category: Chamber Music
TOCCATA FESTOSA is a virtuoso and rhythmic fanfare in which each part represents a demanding part and everything combines to create an energetic festive piece of music. Grooving, modern and trig to perform, ...virtuosos!
Composed for my friend Hannes LÄUBIN.
Duration: 3 Minuten
Publisher of notes/sheet music: Strube Musikverlag München , EDITION 2703 , 2024
Instrumentation: 10 Trompeten
(mit 2 Piccolotrompeten in Bb,
4 Trompeten in C,
4 Trompeten in Bb)
Introduction: TOCCATA FESTOSA is - inspired by the dedicatee - a virtuoso and rhythmic fanfare in which each part represents a demanding part and everything combines to create an energetic festive piece of music.
The composition was written for Hannes Läubin, who will retire as a professor in summer 2024 and can look back on a brilliant career in Munich as a soloist, as principal trumpeter in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and as a sought-after teacher at the Munich University of Music and Theatre. Personally, I have been friends with Hannes since the early 1970s, when I learnt to play this extravagant instrument together with him in Robert Bodenröder's trumpet class at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg i. Br. This was later followed by joint concerts, LPs and CDs, where I was able to come into contact (then as organist or conductor) with this unparalleled, exceptional musician.
Below you see two photos dating from 1980... recording our first LP Longplay Disc for Label Prodisc Strasbourg
Dedication: …für Hannes Läubin, meinen langjährigen Weggefährten
World premiere: 29.06.2024, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Performers at world premiere: 29th of June 2024 University of Music Munich / mit der Trompetenklasse Professor Hannes Läubin
