The composition ‘Bernhard von Weimar at the Battle of Lützen’ is a youth work by Richard Strauss that remained unpublished for many years. It was written in 1892 and is barely mentioned in the composer's biography. The work was commissioned by Grand Duke Karl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and his wife. The score of this piece was not published until 1930 by Heinrichshofener Verlag, but as the third of four movements under the title ‘Living Pictures’ and labeled ‘Battle and Victory’.
Italian arranger Gottfried Veit now transcribed this six-minute ‘symphonic poem’ for Symphonic Band.