Orchestrations

Victor Herbert was an orchestration genius who for the most part did his own orchestration work on Full Scores, eventually parceling out work to trusted employees for creation of conducting scores and actual parts.

The products contained here are original Victor Herbert orchestrations that were either done by him or approved by him. Most have been painstakingly restored into Finale from Herbert’s hand written scores, and/or 100+ year old copyists’ hand. In some cases there are published scores and parts. You can always trust the arrangers Otto Langey and Harold Sanford. Those are the only two names who worked for and/or were approved by Herbert to arrange his music. You will find their names most often on “Selections from …..” published scores and parts.

Herbert was not particularly fond of overtures per se and often asked Langey to create a overture and label it “Selections from …”