Fugue #2 from Fantasia Contrappuntistica for Brass Quintet by Ferruccio Busoni Brass Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

For brass quintets seeking innovative programming here is the second fugue from Italian composer and pianist Ferrucio Busoni's 1912 magnum opus treatise, "Fantasia Contrappuntistica", that pays homage to J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue" of which Busoni modifies the baroque master's fugues with inventive new counterpoint and harmonies.

For brass quintets seeking innovative programming here is the second fugue from Italian composer and pianist Ferrucio Busoni's 1912 magnum opus treatise, "Fantasia Contrappuntistica", that pays homage to J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue" of which Busoni modifies the baroque master's fugues with inventive new counterpoint and harmonies. It is arranged for a brass quintet of two B-flat trumpets with alternate C trumpet parts, horn in F, trombone and tuba. The audio file is an actual brass quintet performance of the entire arrangment. See 150+ mixed brass ensembles and homogeneous horn, trumpet and trombone ensembles publications with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for inexperienced to advanced musicians with music from the Renaissance to contemporary works for trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets, octets, brass choir and brass band. Many editions include alternate C trumpet parts for B-flat trumpet, flugelhorn/trumpet substitute for horn, horn substitute for trombone and treble clef substitutes for trombone and euphonium. All ensemble publications are digital download with preview recordings.Charles Decker Music Press brass publications are played internationally by all levels of students, adult amateurs and professional musicians including performances at music festivals, at universities and prestigious U.S. music conservatories of Eastman, New England, Peabody, Oberlin, Boston and by professional ensembles including the world-class Summit Brass.For our two special brass ensemble series use Women Composers with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for works by Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Ethel Smyth, Emma Louise Ashford, Florence Price and others and Music of Black Composers Series with Charles Decker Music Press at Sheet Music Plus for early jazz to symphonic works with composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, R. Nathaniel Dett, William Grant Still, Will Marion Cook, James Reese Europe, James Johnson, Florence Price and others. For more Charles Decker brass ensemble editions use these links to Kendor Music and Cherry Classics Music for arrangements of music by J.S. Bach, H.L. Clarke, Debussy, Dukas, Elgar, Falla, Holst, Ives, Nestico, Rachmaninoff, Satie, and Tchaikovsky.