The composers on this page wrote original works for mandoline ensembles.
Some also arranged music for mandoline ensembles. Further compositions
arranged for mandoline ensembles can be found here.
For mandolin quartet/orchestra
- Giuseppe Anelli Trigolo (1876 - 1926)
- Giuseppe Bellenghi (1847 - 1902) also used a pseudonym: G. B. Pirani
- Vinzenzo Billi (1869 - 1938)
arranged by Billi:
- Fernando Bonatti (1901 - 1951)
- Calogero Adolfo Bracco (1860 - 1905)
- Alfonso Cipollone (1843 - 1926)
- Domenico De Giovanni (1844 - 1925)
- Gregorio Dimasi (1896 - 1931)
- Willy Fahr (Professor and director of the conservatory in Wiesbaden,
disappeared from the address book in 1931)
arranged by Fahr:
- Giuseppe Frendo (1870 - 1939, many sources on the web claim that this is instead
a Maltese composer of the same name who lived 1810-1884. But mandolin music in the
19th century consisted of solos, duos, trios or mandolins with other instruments.
Mandolin quartets with mandola and guitar only showed up after 1890.)
- Gennaro Giacomo Peirano (1874 - 1917, an Italian who later conducted a mandolin
orchestra in Zürich)
- Carl Henze (1872 - 1946)
arranged by Henze:
- Ferdinand Kollmaneck (1871 - 1941)
arranged by Kollmaneck:
- Angelo Liprandi (1848 - 1906)
- Giuseppe Manente (1867 - 1941)
- W. G. Oertel (1859 - ?, in 1892 he was performing in Dresden playing
violin, xylophone, wine bottles, glasses, plates and bells. In 1931 he
conducted a mandolin orchestra in Magdeburg.)
- Theodor Ritter1 (1883 - 1950)
arranged by Ritter:
- Simone Salvetti (1870 – 1932)
- Giacomo Sartori (1860 - 1946)
- Otto Schick (1850 - 1928)
arranged by Schick:
Schick's Mandolinenalbum Volume 2
scanned by Google
- Paul Spiegelberg (1859-1937)
- Emil Stoye (according to the Köln address book a music teacher who died
sometime between 1930 and 1935)
arranged by Stoye:
- E. S. Thomas (born before 1860)
- Homer Tourjee (1866 - 1943)
- Willy Volmert (according to the Düsseldorf address book a pseudonym of
Josef Volmert who worked as a master craftsman/foreman in a factory and had
a small publishing company for his own compositions. He died ca 1935.)
- Henry Wormsbacher (1866 - 1934)
arranged by Wormsbacher:
For mandolin and guitar
From the collection of Willi Lorenz, a former member of the Braunschweig
Mandolin Orchestra.
- Vincenzo Arienzo (1873 - 1907, presumably a pseudonym of Enrico Marucelli)
- Salvator Leonardi (1872 - 1938)
- Alfred Heinrich Loreti (1870 – 1944)
- Hermyn Siegmund (1863 - 1941, first name also spelled: Hermin. Many modern
sources claim that this was a woman. Maybe because the female name "Hermine" is much
more common than the male "Hermin". But according to older issues of a guitar magazine on
www.digitalguitararchive.com, this was a man who published
sheetmusic in his own publishing company in Silesia.)
Footnote:
I am providing the music on this site as a historical record. Some of the
composers and some of the music titles and themes are inappropriate from a modern
perspective because of a discriminatory nature or because of political views that I
do not condone.
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