“Kaiserpfalz” is a work composed in 2013 for band performance. It was premiered at the “V Iberoamerican Congress of Composers, Conductors and Arrangers of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles”, conducted by Felix Hauswirth.

The piece lasts about six and a half minutes and is based, from a personal and subjective perspective, on the fortress at Kaiserswerth, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The Kaiserpfalz, built in 1045, was one of the Holy Roman Emperor’s numerous imperial palaces or temporary seats of pow...