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Trumpets and Drums (German: Pauken und Trompeten) is an adaptation of an 18th-century English Restoration comedy by Farquhar The Recruiting Officer. It was written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with Benno Besson and Elisabeth Hauptmann.It was first performed in 1955 in a production directed by Besson with music by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (whose songs for the play have been called Weill-like by John Willett).