Joseph Haydn, "father of the string quartet", wrote this in 1797. Later on it was used as the "Emperor's Hymn" for Francis II, and can since be encountered in many different contexts; amongst others it turned into the "Deutschlandlied", the German national anthem. 
I did this arrangement for solo guitar as a contract work, but I kind of like the melody and harmonic structure, as long as it's not played by a brass band...

Haydn | Volkslied

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Seeing For The Very First Time - Sample

My Funny Valentine -Sample

The most beautiful lullaby by the best singer and songwriter, James Taylor, recorded for the best little boy in the world: my son! :-)

You Can Close Your Eyes (J. Taylor) - Markus Gahlen Solo

One of my favorite "modern" christmas songs by Mel Tormé. An arrangement I created for solo acoustic guitar, played on my new archtop guitar ("The Loar LH-600).

The Christmas Song

A german lullaby featured in the daily eastern german "Sandmännchen" (sandman) TV-show. I recorded it (among others) for my son's 5th birthday. It was arranged and played on my lovely Stevens baritone guitar.

Das Sandmännchen

Les Feuilles Mortes - LeFlow

"Le Flow" are: Melanie Heizmann (vocals) and Markus Gahlen (guitar & vocals)
Composition by Benjamin Biolay, Arrangement by M. Gahlen

Jardin D'Hiver - Le Flow

Premaster of a studio live recording för the new album "ZWEI".
Melanie Heizmann - voc
Markus Gahlen - git
Migo Fecke - b
Marcel Mader - perc

Eye Of The Tiger - Lo:La

My Valentine M Gahlen Solo

I stumbled across this beautiful song "Perlentage" by German singer-songwriter and pianist Meike Garden the other day and couldn't get the melody out of my head. 
So I finally surrendered to the fact that this melody obviously wanted to tell me something and wrote a little arrangement for acoustic guitar.


Perlentage

"Der Mond ist aufgegangen", a composition by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz from the 18th century based on the poem "Abendlied" by Mathias Claudius, arranged for solo acoustic guitar and played by Markus Gahlen.

Abendlied / Arr.: M. Gahlen

A version of Roul De Souza's trombone masterpiece arranged for solo acoustic guitar and performed by Markus Gahlen

Sweet Lucy

A composition by John Dowland (1563 - 1626), English composer and lute virtuoso.

This is how I figured he would have arranged it nowadays... ;-)

Arranged and played by Markus Gahlen

My Lady Hudson's Puffe - Arr. Markus Gahlen

Played around with my brand new, heavenly baritone guitar by Stevens Custom Guitars, Munich, when suddenly the hook line of this Beatles Classic came to my mind. I didn't have a recording of it, so I arranged it by heart and did a little impro in the middle part. If not for the arrangement you might like it for the sound of my guitar, so I thought I'd share it...

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