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Title	Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: eine Märchenskizze für Blasorchester
Article no.	4064790
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Instrumentation/info	18 selbststädig geführte Stimmen
Format	Prt (full score)
Country of publication	Germany (de)
Publisher *	HH Musikverlag
Publisher's article no. *	SA 064
Year of publication	2013
Minimum order quantity	1
Composer	Adam, Stephan
Difficulty level	3
Evaluation level of countries	D3 (German medium level)
Duration	5:00
Additional info/contents	The city of Hameln is plagued by a terrible plague of rats, and solutions are discussed on the market square, led by the mayor and the city council, while a stranger declares that he wants to tackle the problem. He demands one million thalers for it. After the promise of this sum he lures the rats into the Weser at night by magical flute playing in which they drown. Then he appears before the mayor to demand his wages. The stranger takes bitter revenge by enchanting the children of the city who remained at home during this nocturnal celebration with his flute playing: Ally join him and forever draw with him into the distance. Composition commissioned by the Bayerische Musikakademie Hammelburg on the occasion of the festival UNerHÖRTes 2013.
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Programme notes *: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the titular character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany, as well as the title of the fairy tale that depicts the character. The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by using his instrument's magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version of the story spread as folklore and has appeared in the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, and Robert Browning, among others. In 1284, while the town of Hamelin was suffering from a rat infestation, a piper dressed in multicolored ("pied") clothing appeared, claiming to be a rat-catcher. He promised the mayor a solution to their problem with the rats. The mayor, in turn, promised to pay him for the removal of the rats (according to some versions of the story, the promised sum was 1,000 guilders). The piper accepted and played his pipe to lure the rats into the Weser River, where they all drowned. Despite the piper's success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay him the full sum (reputedly reduced to a sum of 50 guilders) even going so far as to blame the piper for bringing the rats himself in an extortion attempt. Enraged, the piper stormed out of the town, vowing to return later to take revenge. On Saint John and Paul's day, while the adults were in church, the piper returned dressed in green like a hunter and playing his pipe. In so doing, he attracted the town's children. 130 children followed him out of town and into a cave and were never seen again. Depending on the version, at most three children remained behind: one was lame and could not follow quickly enough, the second was deaf and therefore could not hear the music, and the last was blind and therefore unable to see where he was going. These three informed the villagers of what had happened when they came out from church. Other versions relate that the Pied Piper led the children to the top of Koppelberg Hill, where he took them to a beautiful land, or a place called Koppenberg Mountain, or Transylvania, or that he made them walk into the Weser as he did with the rats, and they all drowned. Some versions state that the Piper returned the children after payment, or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold. The Hamlin street named Bungelosenstrasse ("street without drums") is believed to be the last place that the children were seen. Ever since, music or dancing is not allowed on this street. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia Information: H&H Musikverlag

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	Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: eine Märchenskizze für Blasorchester (concert/wind band), full score
	Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: eine Märchenskizze für Blasorchester, Set of parts without score

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