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Does anyone know where I can get a hold of the orchestra accompaniment to Catozzi’s Beelzebub? Thanks!

Will

I wasn't able to find Curtis Peacock's orchestration of this commercially available (for sale or rent), although their tuba and piano version is for sale and their version for tuba and concert band is for sale and rental through Carl Fischer. The orchestration seems to be relatively recent (2022), so it's possible that it is not ready for publication yet, or maybe Carl Fischer or Curtis weren't interested in publishing it.

I would recommend reaching out to Curtis directly. They have a website for their scales book with a Contact Us page that should put you in touch with them.

I haven't been able to find any other orchestrations at this time. Hope this helps, and best of luck!

A lot of past orchestrators were good at taking an orchestra piece and orchestrating it for a wind band, but I've always sort of wondered about doing the opposite.

I suppose - if there are three clarinet parts - they might be given to the first violins, second violins, and violas, let the clarinets play along with them, and maybe give the baritone horn parts to the cellos. (??)
I guess in a band accompaniment, the four saxophone parts are probably going to be mostly redundant with perhaps the horn, bassoon, and maybe baritone horn and tuba/double bass...(??)

(I tried to avoid broadening this topic until someone came up with a specific answer, as Colby seems to have addressed the main topic, but this has always been something about which I was curious.)

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MiBrassFS wrote: Sat Sep 13, 2025 4:48 pm Of course, there’s always the arrangement that Beelzebub himself did of the work for an all viola orchestra. To use it, the cost is pretty high…

@Schlitzz

BlueRidgeTeacher wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 5:51 pm Does anyone know where I can get a hold of the orchestra accompaniment to Catozzi’s Beelzebub? Thanks!

Will

https://www.musikverlag-reinau.de/catal ... mr112.html

Here you go!

Just to clarify Kontrabasstuba's recommendation, that Thorsten Reinau's arrangement appears to be for "blasorchester", which is a wind band without strings. Musikverlag Reinau doesn't list the specific instrumentation or share an expert of the score, but the recording sounds like a wind band to me.

Just wanted to make sure a translation issue didn't result in someone ordering something they weren't expecting.

I'm sure I mention my high school buddy (who grew up in a very modest home with his widow mother providing a single income) way too often (who took his fiberglass Conn 36K sousaphone home every night and practiced 3 or 4 hours a night and - with no private instruction and only diligent practice - auditioned into Pershing's Own in the 12th grade...the person who's responsible for teaching me how a tuba should sound and what it can do)...
...but in our spring concert when I was in the 11th grade and he was graduating - already having been hired by the Army and with basic training already scheduled - he played this piece with our high school band. The last variation - that involves the all the triple tonguing (I'm quite sure that the tempo was somewhere in the 150s) - was absolutely exquisitely executed. He finished up with a very resonant and in tune high E-flat.

Sorry, I haven’t been on for a bit. I got in contact with Curtis. The orchestra arrangement should be available soon through Carl Fischer.

Published by Cimarron Music Press

https://www.cimarronmusic.com/beelzebuborchestra