Bassoon,Clarinet,Double Bass,Flute,Horn,Oboe,Tuba - Digital Download SKU: A0.1276042 Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,March,Romantic Period. 20 pages. RayThompsonMusic #867600. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1276042). Arranged symphonic wind dectet (double wind quintet/bass/tuba.Tchaikovsky wrote his Military March in B-flat major (TH 150 ; ÄŒW 52) in the spring of 1893 at the request of his cousin Andrey Tchaikovsky, who was the commander of the 98th Yurevsky Infantry Regiment.Tchaikovsky provided only a piano score, with the instruction that the regimental bandmaster should arrange it for the forces at his disposal. The version published by Jurgenson after the composer's death was scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 4 clarinets (E-flat, B-flat), bass clarinet (B-flat), 2 bassoons + 3 cornets (E-flat, B-flat), 3 trumpets (E-flat), 3 tenor horns (B-flat), 4 horns (E-flat), euphonium, 3 trombones, 2 bass trombones + small drum and large drum.My arrangement has 2 Â Horns in F.The March was published by Pyotr Jurgenson in 1894 under the French title March Militaire, in its original version for solo piano, as well as a full score and parts for military band. The arranger of the latter was not identified.Only the solo piano version was published in volume 53 of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works, edited by Anatoly Drozdov (1949).Further info here.Tchaikovsky also wrote the similar sounding Coronation March TH50.
