Format : Sheet music
Commissioned by Austria s leading brass band Brass Band Oberoesterreich Titan s Progress is a series of descriptive virtuoso episodes based on the principal character of the novel by Jean Paul. This was also the original subject of Mahler s Symphony No. 1 from which Hermann Pallhuber derives much of his material. The work has proved an exceptionally popular test piece all over the world.Titan's Progress was the selected test piece for the British Open Brass Band Championship held at Symphony Hall Birmingham on Saturday 12th September 2009.Brass Band Grade 6: ChampionshipDuration: 17 minutes
SKU: AP.12-0571569676
ISBN 9780571569670. English.
Titan's Progress, which is Hermann Pallhuber's first work for the British style brass band, contains references to the music of Gustav Mahler. Motifs from Mahler's First Symphony are employed throughout and especially the principal theme of the finale. Pallhuber's music is programmatic and uses the content of the novel and its hero Albano's evolution for its underlying structure. The stylistic variety of the work (including the Chorale, an impudent Landler, a dancing Farandole, and a climactic Fugue) are Mahleresque in their influences. Titan was a novel by the German author Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who later known as Jean Paul, and was considered the author's main work. At almost 900 pages in length, it tells the story of the transition of its hero, Albano de Cesara, from a passionate youth to a mature man. Jean Paul was one of Gustav Mahler's favorite authors and the latter gave the original five-movement version of his first symphony the subtitle The Titan -- in deference to Jean Paul's novel.
