Symphony in B-flat for Band was written by the German composer Paul Hindemith in 1951.
It was premiered on April 5 of that year by the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" with the composer conducting.
This writing takes advantage of the vast color palette that this combination of instruments offers.
[2] Richard Franko Goldman, a bandmaster himself and a music critic of the mid-20th century, called the piece "singularly dead".
He previously lamented that the piece falls "between the effort to be popular and obvious, and the intention to remain unsmiling and uncorrupted".