Hamburg - The gate to the World is a symphonic poem in which I want to musically tell a part of the moving history of this fascinating city.

 
The individual sections:
 
1. Hamburg from above
2. The Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages - execution Störtebekers
3. The king of Denmark
4. The great Departure - Emigration in the 19th century
5. Hamburger Michel
6. The victims of the 1943 bombing
7. New beginning, hope and joy of life
8. The great torm flood in1962
9. Fight against the flood
10. Hamburg bows to Helmut Schmidt
11. Welcome to Hamburg
12. St. Pauli
13. Hamburg - the gate to the world

transcription for wind orchestra

Symphonic poem No.3 

transcription for wind orchestra

Hymn for big wind band . Originally composed for two orchestras. For this reason, there are sheets for incidental music. However, this version is fully performable even without the additional parts.

This transcription was created as a commissioned arrangement for the German armed forced concert band by Guido Rennert. 

arranged for wind orchestra

transcription for wind orchestra

This solemnly brilliant opening fanfare is based on themes and motifs from the 3rd symphony (Rheinische) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).
When Schumann was appointed municipal music director in Düsseldorf in 1850 after working in Leipzig and Dresden, the people there were very kind to him there: the orchestra and choir had rehearsed some of his pieces.

There was a ball and a souper especially for him.
The enthusiasm of the Rhinelander infected Schumann and he composed his own alongside many other new works
3rd symphony in E flat major. It is rightly called the "Rheinische"; because the description of Rhenish life and Rhenish cheerfulness are expressed here.

Robert Kuckertz combined the main theme of the 1st movement and other motifs of the symphony with festive fanfare sounds and thus created a sophisticated overture in a free manner.

The 9th Symphony in D Minor, op. 125, premiered in 1824, is the last completed symphony by the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In the final movement of the symphony, a mixed choir is used in addition to the orchestra. Beethoven chose the poem To the Joy by Friedrich Schiller as text. In 1972 the main theme of the last sentence was declared his anthem by the Council of Europe and in 1985 the European Community adopted it as the official European anthem.
Until 1952, Beethoven's Ode to Joy was often used as a replacement West German national anthem on official occasions because there was no official national anthem. Beethoven's original score has been stored in the Old Library in Berlin since 1901. During the Second World War, the library attempted to protect its holdings from being destroyed by war. From 1941, the autograph was outsourced in three parts to places that appeared safe. A part was initially kept in Silesia and thus came into Polish possession after the end of the war in Kraków. Another part was stored in East Berlin in the German State Library. The third part went to the Beuron Monastery on the Danube. Only after the German reunification were the three parts of the autograph of the 9th symphony reunited in the Berlin State Library.
Robert Kuckertz created a new symphonic work suitable for wind orchestra from the well-known themes of the last movement of the symphony.
Optionally, a mixed choir can be used for the arrangement. Then there is an astonishing and unexpected effect: the choir sings the text of the German national anthem on the melody of the European anthem and only in the recapitulation to the finale does Friedrich Schiller's original text follow: "Pleasure of beautiful gods ..."

Composed for the symphonic youth wind orchestra Karlsruhe with its conductor Stefan Kollmann for the 40th anniversary of gr. Sinf. Concert band and youth choir