A Birthday Fanfare

for trumpets and percussion

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:  1981

First Performance:  Saturday, 10 October 1981. Wengerner Mόhle [the guest house of Dr. Karl-Friedrich Still], Recklinghausen. Members of the Westphalia Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rickenbacher conductor.

Duration:  Under 1 minute

Dedication:  "For Karl"  [i.e. Walton's neighbor on Ischia, Karl-Friedrich Still, on his 70th birthday]

C. Number:  C99

Instrumentation:

7 trumpets – percussion

Manuscript:

The private collection of Dr. Karl-Friedrich Still, Recklinghausen

Publication:

Oxford University Press, 1983. Materials available for purchase:

Recordings:  This work has never been recorded.

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