La Marche sur la Bastille
Subtitle: Extrait Du 14 Juillet De Romain Rolland
General Info
Year: 1936
Duration: c. 4:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Chant du Monde, now Wise Music Group
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £48.99
Instrumentation
C Piccolo (2)
Flute (2)
Oboe (2)
Bassoon (2)
Contrabassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet (2)
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet (3)
Horn in F (5)
Trombone (4)
Tuba (3)
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Cymbal
- Tenor Drum
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
La Marche sur la Bastille was composed for a revival of Romain Rolland’s pageant Le Quatorze Julliet (The 14th of July), which was presented at the Theater du Chatelet in connection with the Paris Exposition of 1937. Arthur Honegger was one of several prominent French composers commissioned by the French government to provide incidental music. Rolland’s work dramatizes incidents of the French Revolution, and Honegger was asked to write music for the most dramatic portion, The March on the Bastille.
Written directly for wind band, it received its first American performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 3, 1948. It was given by the League of Composers in honor of Edwin Franko Goldman’s 70th birthday, with Walter Hendl conducting the Goldman Band.
- Program Note from Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Manhattan Wind Ensemble (New York) (Christopher Baum, conductor)
- Audio CD: Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music Symphonic Band (Laszlo Marosi, conductor) - 2014
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Miami (Ohio) University Wind Ensemble (Gary Speck, conductor) - 3 March 2023
- West Valley College (Saratoga, Calif.) Symphonic Band (Troy Davis, conductor) – 7 March 2020
- Valley Winds (Blechertown, Mass.) – 24 May 2015
- Strasbourg Conservatory of Music (Strasbourg, France), Orchestre à vents (Miguel Etchegoncelay, conductor) - 24 March 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Grad Us (arr. H. Hoffman) (1940)
- Intrada (arr. Maurizio Billi) (1947/)
- King David (1921)
- Nicolas de Flue (1940)
- Marche des Ambassadeurs (arr. Dupont) (1940/1962)
- Musique pour Pasiphae (1943/1983)
- La Marche sur la Bastille (1936)
- Le roi David. See: King David
- Pacific 231 (arr. Adachi) (1923/2022)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Arthur Honegger." Accessed 25 March 2020
- Honegger, A.; Rolland, R. (1936). La Marche sur la Bastille [score]. La Chant du Monde: Paris.
- Orchestral music - Arthur Honegger Accessed 23 June 2023