You are on a site hosted and operated by SheetMusicDirect according to its terms and conditions. The information you provide will be handled according to its privacy policy. The information you provide here may be shared with and handled according to the terms of its privacy policy.
Unlimited access to over 1 million arrangements for every instrument, genre & skill levelStart Your Free Trial Get your unlimited access PASS!Get started free!
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) wrote this as a piece for piano (4-hands) in the 1880s after attending a performance of Tristan & Isolde in Munich. Chabrier had been moved to tears by Richard Wagner's romantic music drama, but when Chabrier returned home to Paris, he wrote this burlesque, a pastiche of the various themes from the opera. It was a curious thing to do, because instead of writing a tribute to Wagner's masterpiece, it was as if he instead squirted Wagner in the face with a seltzer bottle. Wagner's champion, Hans von Bülow, became enraged when he heard Chabrier perform the parody, but Wikipedia reports that Francis Poulenc described Souvenirs de Munich as "irresistibly funny", where Wagner's principal themes appear with "false beards and fake moustaches."This arrangement for wind band is greatly simplified from the original piano piece to make it more playable. Still, bands will find it a challenge, although instrumentalists and audiences both are certain to enjoy this clever novelty from La Belle Époque.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
Matt Conaway
Concert Band
Michael Brown
Paul Murtha
Earth, Wind & Fire
Billy Joel
Robert Longfield
Michael Sweeney
Sean O'Loughlin
Emmanuel Chabrier
Robert Buckley
Stephen Schwartz
Johnnie Vinson
Hans Florian Zimmer
Mike Sweeney
Ozzy Osbourne
Brad Breek
Carol Brittin Chambers
We value your privacyYour opt-out preference signal (GPC) has been honored.