AMICUS AUCTORIS MUSIC PUBLISHING

Laszlo Marosi enjoys a career of leading wind bands and orchestras at concerts, festivals, recording studios and academies around the world. Educated at the Liszt Academy, he spent 15 years as conductor of the Hungarian Central Army Band. He published The History of the Military Music in Hungary from 1741-1945 in 2011. His numerous awards include the Artisjus Prize (Hungarian Composers Union), the FAME Award (Mid-Europe), the Roger Bobo Award (International Tuba and Euphonium Association) and the Peace Ambassador Award (Mil Milenios de Paz-Fundacion, PEA/UNESCO).

Matthias Höfert is a conductor and composer and is one of the most accomplished representatives of symphonic wind music in Germany.

He conducts the Federal Police Orchestra in Hanover and the Lower Saxony State Youth Wind Orchestra. He is a sought-after adjudicator and mentors the wind band he founded in Lengfurt.

AMICUS AUCTORIS has released some of his most successful arrangements for wind band, out of a total of over 100, including Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche.

Tobias Faßhauer, born in 1966, holds degrees in musicology and music theory; as a composer, arranger and trombonist, he has been working with the concert band “Zentralkapelle Berlin” for many years. He is currently a research assistant for the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Complete Edition at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has contributed research on Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler and in 2024 published a book on the reception and influence of John Philip Sousa in Europe: Hands Across the Sea. John Philip Sousa und der musikalische Amerikanismus in Kontinentaleuropa.

LAWRENCE DALE HARPER is Professor Emeritus of Music of Carroll University, where he enjoyed a 31-year career as conductor of the University Wind Symphony and the Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin. From 1986-97, he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band and has been the conductor of one of the few professional wind ensembles in the world, the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, since its founding in 1995. He has brought these ensembles to local and regional prominence through innovative programming, CD releases, international touring, commissioning and premiering new works, performing at major concert halls and conferences, and hosting internationally recognized composers and conductors.

Volker Angerhofer, born in 1966 (Ravensburg/Germany), is a teacher, arranger, composer, and publisher, as well as the founder of AMICUS AUCTORIS, a publishing house by musicians for musicians. „As a friend of my authors, I champion their good ideas with the same passion as my own projects.“ Together, we fill gaps in the repertoire, be they compositions, arrangements, or books. AMICUS AUCTORIS offers what has been missing. Curious? Write to us! @: verlag@angerhofer.com