Paul Geisler - The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin (1881)

Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Geisler (Stolp, 1856 - Poznań, 1919)
Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin), Symphonic Poem (1881)
Performed by the Rundfunk Orchester Cologne, conducted by Curt Cramer.
Images: Scenes from the city of Hameln, c. 1895. The last image is the Rat-Catcher's House. Library of Congress Photochrom Collection, CC-BY SA 4.0.

[@thomashaueter9675]

Really cool descriptive piece...well done...composition might have been better known and received had the title been "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"

[@bomcabedal]

Not in Germany, though.

[@christopherstephenson4531]

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is how the story is known in English, even though it is not a direct translation @@bomcabedal

[@bomcabedal]

@@christopherstephenson4531 I was aware of that, but that title always sounded a bit silly to me, so I took the liberty of supplying a translation closer to the original.