Larry Daehn

Larry Daehn was born in 1939 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and grew up on his parent’s farm near Rosendale, Wisconsin. He attended a one-room grade school, and Rosendale High School. He received his Bachelor Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and his Master’s Degree from University of Wisconsin-Platteville.

Daehn’s 35-year teaching career included elementary, middle school and high school band, chorus and classroom music.

The New Glarus, WI High School Band, which Daehn directed for twenty-seven years, received many state and national honors: 6 Six Flags Best In Class trophies, 4 Wisconsin Governor’s Special Commendations, a Wisconsin Senate Citation Of Excellence. The band was chosen to perform at the Wisconsin State Music Convention in 1996.

Daehn is a member of American School Band Directors, Wisconsin Music Education Conference, World Association of Symphonic Bands And Ensembles, The Percy Grainger Society, National Band Association and Phi Beta Mu National Honor Society. He was named in Leaders of American Education in 1971, and was chosen Outstanding Bandmaster by Phi Beta Mu-Pi Chapter in 1988. In 2021, Daehn was awarded the prestigious Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation by the American Bandmasters Association, in recognition of conspicuous service in the interest of bands and band music.

Daehn was commissioned to write The West Point Bicentennial March, which was premiered in Carnegie Hall. He has lectured and guest-conducted in Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon and California. His articles have appeared in The Instrumentalist and Bandworld magazines.

Since 1987, Daehn has been owner and operator of Daehn Publications, now distributed by C. L. Barnhouse. He is a popular guest conductor and music lecturer.

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Publications by Larry Daehn

A Song For Friends
Daehn
Build-A-Band edition
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score | MP3 Download
Grade: 2
LDP-7333-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7333-00
To Those Who Dream
Fanfare and Processional
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score | MP3 Download
Grade: 3
LDP-7332-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7332-00
Happy Trombones Rag
(After the 1913 Happy Rag by R. G. Grady)
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 2.5
LDP-7129-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7129-00
Moonlight Marimba
(After Beethoven’s Opus 27, Moonlight Sonata)
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3
LDP-7182-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7182-00
Tchaikovskyana
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7280-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7280-00
Wagner’s Trombones
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7303-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7303-00
The Crown Diamonds
Finale
Auber/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7074-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7074-00
Remembrance
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3
LDP-7227-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7227-00
Thunder and Lightning
Polka Schnell
Strauss/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7286-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7286-00
Contrapunctus V
J. S. Bach/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7067-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7067-00
Erl-King
Schubert/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7095-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7095-00
Rookie of the Year
Conti/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7231-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7231-00
All Mine to Give
Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3
LDP-7010-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7010-00
Carnival of the Animals
Finale
Saint-Saëns/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 5
LDP-7046-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7046-00
Symphony No. 2
Excerpts from the Finale
Sibelius/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7275-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7275-00
The Toy Parade
Kahn, Greene, Gordon/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 2
LDP-7292-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7292-00
Black and White Rag
Botsford/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7032-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7032-00
Chaconne
J. S. Bach/arr. Daehn
Concert Band edition
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 2.5
LDP-7050-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7050-00
Christmas Day
(Fantasy on Old Carols)
Holst/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7060-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7060-00
Galop
(from Dance of the Hours)
Ponchielli/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7117-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7117-00
Norwegian Rhapsody
(Presto)
Lalo/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4.5
LDP-7195-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7195-00
Passacaglia
(from Cantata No. 12)
J. S. Bach/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3
LDP-7210-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7210-00
Triumphal Symphony
Berlioz/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 3.5
LDP-7295-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7295-00
Farandole
(from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2)
Bizet/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7104-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7104-00
Pietro’s Return March
Deiro/arr. Daehn
Full set | Extra full score | Oversized, spiral-bound score
Grade: 4
LDP-7214-00More Info This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
LDP-7214-00