Junior Durward Morsch (December 18, 1920 – August 2, 2015) was an American composer, prolific arranger, trombonist, and retired music educator who has worked and recorded professionally in a broad spectrum of genres, beginning with progressive big band jazz in the late 1940s and ending as a high school band director in Colorado. He was also the band director at Saguaro High School, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Morsch was born in Iowa. Noted for his scoring for symphonic band works, Morsch has written over 400 arrangements, including 125 marching band scores, 110 symphonic scores, and 125 scores for film, dating from the 1930s to the present.
His son, Robert Stuart Morsch, DMA (1942–2009), was a music educator at the collegiate level, notably the director of bands at Western Illinois University.
Between 1946 and 1949, Morsch recorded on five studio sessions and two live broadcast as trombonist with the Earle Spencer Orchestra. Morsch is an alumnus of the University of Southern California and the University of Northern Colorado (1950s). He died in 2015 at the age of 94 in Colorado Springs.[1]
Arranged for concert band by Morsch (1950)[2]
Theodore Presser Company (1963)
Arranged for concert band by Morsch
Arranged for concert band by Morsch
Arranged for wind symphony by Morsch
Arranged for wind symphony by Morsch
Arranged for 3 instruments (woodwind, strings, recorders, or mixed)
Theodore Presser Company (1964)
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"Minuet," K. 599, No. 1
Trio for flute, B♭ clarinet, and bassoon (or strings or recorders or mixed)
Theodore Presser Company (1964), Universal edition
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For 3 B♭ clarinets, E♭ alto clarinet, B♭ bass clarinet, EE♭ contrabass clarinet, and BB♭ contrabass clarinet
By Nilo W. Hovey & Morsch
Belwin-Mills (1968)
Arranged for 3 instruments (woodwind, strings, recorders, or mixed)
Theodore Presser Company (1964)
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Arranged for wind symphony by Morsch
Arranged for wind ensemble by Morsch (2000)
Transcribed by Morsch
Arranged for concert band by Morsch
Flute solo arranged by Morsch for wind ensemble