Army march collection
The Army March Collection (actually: The Royal Prussian Army March Collection ), abbreviated AMS , is the basic catalog of German military marching music .
The Prussian Army March Collection
The basis for the creation of this overview lies in a corresponding decree of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. from 1817. This decree states:
"In order to help the regiments in the army in choosing good military music, I had a selection of tried and tested pieces of music organized and a collection of them for each regiment ..."
This army march collection, which in addition to Prussian marches also contains Austrian and Russian marches, is in turn divided into three collections, in which the marches are differentiated according to purpose or performance purpose; these subgroups are indicated with Roman numerals.
- Collection I: Slow marches for foot troops (115 marches)
- Collection II: Parade marches for foot troops (269 marches)
- Collection III: Cavalry marches (149 marches)
All marches included in the army march collection have an official number designation consisting of a Roman numeral (collection) and an Arabic number (list number in the collection). The number of marches available does not match the last number of the count, as there are still some works added later in each collection that were added to the existing count with the addition of lowercase letters (e.g. II 45a). It is also entirely possible that individual marches are listed in more than one collection.
Examples:
- Presentation march (AM I, 1a and AM III, 1a)
- March Duke of Braunschweig (also known as "Army March No. 9") (AM I, 9)
- March of the Duke of Braunschweig Regiment (AM I, 72)
- Königgrätzer March (AM II, 195)
- Old Hunter's March (AM II, 239)
- Prussia's Gloria (AM II, 240)
Note: In Wikipedia, the names of this army march collection are given in brackets.
Army March Collection
In addition to armeemarschsammlung was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Heeresmusikinspizienten Hermann Schmidt , the army march collection (actually 34 and 43 M.Dv. H.Dv. directory "German army marches" ) together. In addition to some works from the army march collection, it also includes the newly composed or adopted marches that have been added since then. The establishment of the Army March collection ended in 1945 with the end of the Second World War . In contrast to the army march collection, it is divided into four subgroups:
- Collection I: Presentation marches for foot troops (8 marches)
- Collection II: Parade marches for foot troops (38 marches)
- Collection III: Cavalry marches at a pace (slow pace) (17 marches)
- Collection IIIB: Cavalry marches at a gallop (fast tempo) (83 marches)
As mentioned, some military marches have a name in both the army and the army march collection, e.g. B.
- Prussia's Gloria (AM II, 240 and HM II, 98)
- March of the Yorck'schen Korps (AM II, 37 and HM II, 5)
The two collections today
Most of the original works from the much older army march collection have either been lost or only exist in fragments. In particular, the destruction of the Prussian State Archives in Potsdam in 1945 played an important role. To make matters worse, a large number of the older compositions in particular have no titles and / or their composers are unknown. But since many of these works are of Russian origin, there is a prospect of rediscovering them in Russian archives. Private associations and the military music service of the German Armed Forces have long tried not to let these little-known marches in the collection fall into oblivion and to complete them again.
Collection "German Army Marches" by Wilhelm Stephan
The military musician Wilhelm Stephan created a new collection for the Bundeswehr , in which the most famous works of the old army and army march collection were included and given new names.
Volume I (AM I) - Presentation marches for foot troops (19 marches)
- March (1741) by Friedrich II of Prussia
- Presentation march of Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia
- Mollwitz March of Friedrich II of Prussia
- March (1756) by Friedrich II of Prussia
- March of the regiment Prince Heinrich
- March of the regiment Duke of Braunschweig
- March of the regiment Prince Ferdinand
- March of the Jung Bornstedt regiment
- We present by Hans Ailbout
- Big time, new time from Fritz Brase
- Bavarian presentation march by Wilhelm Legrand
- Parade march of the Royal Bavarian Grenadier Guard by Wilhelm Legrand
- March of the Swabian District Regiment Durlach-Baden (around 1700)
- Givenchy March by Arnold Rust
- March of the Leib-Guard-Preobrazhensky Regiment
- March of the Jung Bornstedt Infantry Regiment
- March of the infantry regiment from Möllendorf
- Presentation march of the Black Brigade by Johann Friedrich Carl Rath
- Hessian flag march (1732) by Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
Volume I (AM I) - Slow Marches (11 Marches)
- The Dessau
- The Hohenfriedberger
- The Rhine River
- March 1st Battalion Guard
- March Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Braunschweig
- March Prince August Grenadier Battalion
- The Coburger
- The Pappenheimer
- The Torgau parade march
- March of the Electoral Saxon Life Guard, called "Der Kesselsdorfer"
- March from the time of Frederick the Great
Volume I (AM I) - Presentation marches and parade marches in step for mounted troops (17 marches)
- Crusader Fanfare by Richard Henrion
- Parade March No. 1 by Julius Möllendorf
- Cavalry march by Carl Wilhelm
- Parade march by Wilhelm Wieprecht
- Geschwindmarsch (March of the Guard Cuirassier Regiment) of Hereditary Princess Charlotte of Saxony-Meiningen
- Parade March in B flat major by Albert Lorenz
- Swedish Cavalry March (March of the Finnish Cavalry in the Thirty Years War)
- The Great Elector's horse march by Kuno Graf von Moltke
- Presentation march of the Leib-Kürassier-Regiment "Großer Kurfürst" (Silesia) No. 1 by Kuno Graf von Moltke
- March of the Hanoverian Garde du Corps
- March of the Hanover Cambridge Dragoon Regiment
- March of the Hanoverian Crown Prince Dragoon Regiment
- Old Hessian cavalry march (1732) by Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Cuirassier march "Great Elector" by Walter von Simon
- March for the Royal Prussian 2nd Leib-Hussar Regiment from Carl Maria von Weber
- Vestal march by Gasparo Spontini / Julius Gerold
- Graf-Eberhard-March by Albert Segebrecht
Volume I (AM I) - Zapfenstreich (4 chorals)
- Big tattoo
- Bavarian military prayer by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger
- Bavarian tattoo by Wilhelm Legrand
- Saxon tattoo
Volume I (AM I) - Appendix (2 marches)
- Dutch march of honor (presentation march of the navy) by Jakob Rauscher
- Parade mail for mounted troops
Volume II (AM II) - Parade marches for foot troops (64 marches)
- Parade march by Marc Roland's "Tall Guys"
- March of the Siberian Grenadier Regiment Anonymous
- March of the Yorck'schen Korps (1813) by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Entry March in Paris (1814) by Johann Heinrich Walch
- Vienna (Alexander) March Anonymous
- Sedan March (1816) by Carl Lange
- March based on motifs from the opera " Moses " by Gioacchino Rossini . by Johann Baptist Widder
- March of the Russian Body Guard Regiment Semenowsky Anonymous
- March based on motifs from the opera “ The White Lady ” by François-Adrien Boieldieu
- March from Italy Anonymous
- March from the Hague (1829) by Princess Friedrich of the Netherlands and Prince Carl of Prussia
- March from Petersburg (1837)
- March based on motifs from the opera “The Brewer of Preston” by Adolphe Adam
- March of the KK Austrian Infantry Regiment Duke of Wellington by Johann Schubert
- March based on motifs from the opera " Die Huguenots " by Giacomo Meyerbeer / Hübner
- March of the Russian Grenadier Regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia from St. Petersburg Anonymous
- March based on motifs from the opera “ The Regiment's Daughter ” by Gaetano Donizetti
- Speed march based on motifs from quadrilles by Johann Strauss (Sohn)
- Speed march by Johann Strauss (father)
- Radetzky March by Johann Strauss (father)
- March based on motifs from the opera "Indra" by Friedrich von Flotow / Carl Neumann
- March to tunes by King George V of Hanover
- Pepita March by Carl Neumann
- Alexander March (1853) by Andreas Leonhardt
- March by Wilhelm Friedrich von Redern
- Parade march by Carl Faust
- Helenenmarsch by Friedrich Lübbert
- Viktoria March by Emil Neumann
- Defiliermarsch of Heinrich Saro
- Düppel-Schanzen-Storm March (1864) by Gottfried Piefke
- Der Alsenströmmer (1864) by Gottfried Piefke
- Carinthian song march by Anton Seifert
- March of Problus and Prim by A. Heinrich Laudenbach
- The Königgrätzer March (1866) by Gottfried Piefke
- Stonemason March by Karl Bratfisch
- Fridericus Rex Grenadier March by Ferdinand Radeck
- The German Imperial Guard by Friedrich-Wilhelm Voigt
- March of the infantry regiment Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden by Karl Haefele
- March of the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment Anonymous
- March of the Hanoverian Pioneers Anonymous
- March of the Hessian Leib-Guard Infantry Regiment No. 115 Historical
- March of the volunteer hunters from the Wars of Liberation (1813) by H. Homann
- Prussia's Gloria by Gottfried Piefke
- Swedish War March (Björneborgarnes) Anonymous
- The hunter from the Electoral Palatinate by Johann Gottfried Rode
- Bavarian parade march by Adolf Scherzer
- Mussinan March by Carl Carl
- From the Tann March by Andreas Hager
- King Ludwig II March by Georg Seifert
- Taxis March by Christian Anton Kolb
- Revue March by August Reckling
- German Kaiser March by Friedrich Zikoff
- Core troops march by Hermann Schmiedecke
- March of the Hessian District Regiment and the Landgraf Historisch regiment
- Waidmannsheil by August Reckling
- March of the Swiss Guard Historically
- Good luck for! by Carl Faust
- Greetings to Kiel from Friedrich Spohr
- Schützen-Defiliermarsch by Carl Gottlieb Lippe
- Smorgon March by Hermann Blume
- Free away! by Carl Latann
- Moselle March by Johann Carl Roesler
- The black hunters by Eduard Partsch
- Tannenberg March by Hermann Blume
Volume III (AM III) - Parade marches in trot and gallop (35 marches)
- In the trotting regiment Garde du Corps
- At a gallop from “ Das Nachtlager ” by Conradin Kreutzer
- At the trot of Constantin von Prittwitz and Gaffron
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 48 at a gallop
- Field artillery regiment No. 16 trotting
- Field artillery regiment No. 80 at a gallop
- Trotting from “ Giselle ” by Adolphe Adam
- In the Gallop Festival of the White Rose by Wilhelm Wieprecht
- Trotting from " Martha " by Friedrich von Flotow
- At a gallop 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment No. 1
- In Trabe Dragoon Regiment No. 2
- In the Gallop Uhlan Regiment No. 19 of Reinhold Fellenberg
- Trotting The Sutler by Carl Faust
- At a gallop Amazon march by Peter Ludwig Hertel
- Trotting from “ The White Lady ” by François-Adrien Boieldieu
- At a gallop 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment of Friedrich Wilhelm von Redern
- Trotting anvil polka by Albert Parlow
- At a gallop from " Leichte Kavallerie " by Franz von Suppè
- Trotting I hear a brook rustling from Franz Schubert
- Galloping light cavalry by Wilhelm Lüdecke
- In the trot men's evening by Philipp Fahrbach jr.
- In the Gallop Dragoon Regiment No. 26
- Trotting Der Jäger from Electoral Palatinate by Gottfried Rode
- In the Gallop Hussar Regiment No. 18
- Trotting 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment from Carl Voigt
- In the Gallop Dragoon Regiment No. 14
- Trotting Hannoversche Garde-du-Corps
- At the gallop the Königgrätzer
- Trotting The red sarafan by Alwin Peschke
- At a gallop from " The beautiful Galathée " by Franz von Suppè
- Trotting from " Fatinitza " by Franz von Suppè
- Field artillery regiment No. 75 at a gallop
- Trotting from "The Guardian Spirit " by Hermann Schmidt
- Fürstengruß (welcome fanfare)
- Halali
literature
- Theodor Grawert: Directory of the Royal Prussian Army marches. Parrhysius, Berlin 1914.
- Achim Hofer: The "Royal Prussian Army March Collection" 1817–1839. Origin - environment - description. Kliment, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85139-025-4 .
- August Kalkbrenner: The Royal Prussian Army Marches. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1896 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Gustav Rossberg: Directory of all Royal Prussian Army marches. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1898, OCLC 252466730 .
- Joachim Toeche-Mittler: Army marches. Volume II: The Army March Collection; the regiments with details of their presentation and parade marches; Composers' Lexicon. 2nd Edition. Speemann, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87879-093-7 .