Virtuoso Composition Re-Discovered and Performed
Introduction and Choral Variations on “Now Thank We All Our God” by F.A. Belcke Friedrich August Belcke (1795-1874) was the first luminary in the Leipzig Gewandhaus school of trombone playing, and an in-demand trombone soloist even beyond Germany’s borders. In 1859 he composed and performed the above-named piece for the dedication of a new…