Düppeler Schanzen-March

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The Düppeler Schanzen-March is a Prussian army march.

General

The Prussian military musician Gottfried Piefke composed two military marches during the German-Danish War of 1864 on the occasion of the storming of the Prussian troops on the Düppeler Schanzen , where Danish troops had set up for defense : One is the Düppeler Sturmmarsch ( Army March II, 185), the other, much better known, the Düppeler Schanzen-Sturmmarsch (Army March II, 186), which today is almost exclusively referred to as the Düppeler Schanzen-March .

Emergence

On the day of the attack, April 18, 1864, Piefke had the order to accompany the storm of the Prussian troops with cheering marching music . On this occasion, the Düppeler Schanzen storm march was performed for the first time. According to legend, a cannonball is said to have torn the baton from Piefke's hand, whereupon he is said to have continued to conduct with his sword . This episode was musically processed by Piefke in the Düppeler Sturmmarsch, which was composed shortly afterwards : In the first part of this march, the music suddenly stops in the middle of the game with a bang (cannonball hit), a single cross whistle then plays the Prussian advance signal (signal to advance) , whereupon the music starts again. Confusingly, however, the Düppeler Sturmmarsch appears in the army march collection in the number sequence before the Düppeler Schanzen-March , although it was composed later.

To the music

The Düppeler Schanzen-Sturmmarsch or Düppeler Schanzen-March uses the famous Prussian Zapfenstreichsignal as a prelude and in the trio the song “I stand in sinister midnight” (text by Wilhelm Hauff ), which tells the story of a lonely soldier who chases after Home and family longs.

Trivia

The melody of the march appears, among other things, as background music in the film Bismarck by Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1940), during the scene in which King Wilhelm I speaks to old Field Marshal Wrangel during the victory celebration after the Danish War .

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  • Joachim Toeche-Mittler: The army march collection. The regiments with details of their presentation and parade marches; Composers' Lexicon . Vowinckel-Verlag, Neckargmünd 1971.