March from Petersburg

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The march from Petersburg or Petersburg march is a military march that has been widespread since the 1830s, but different information exists about its origin. The march belongs to the army march AM II, 112 (AM II, 113; HM II, 21) on the presentation march list of the Bundeswehr .

It is certain that the march was brought to Germany from Saint Petersburg in 1837 by the Prussian Prince and later German Emperor Wilhelm . It is said to have been composed by the music sergeant Erik Eriksson (different spelling: Eric Ericsson ; 1806 - around 1840), who belonged to the marching band of the Finnish Guard belonging to the Russian Empire . Eriksson was awarded a gold watch by Tsar Nicholas I for the march in 1837 . As a result, he became known in Russia as the column march of the Finnish Guard Rifle Battalion . The Finnish bandmaster Lenni Linnala (1878-1947) believed to have proven Eriksson's authorship and thus the Finnish origin of the march, which has since been known there as the Finnish Suomi-marssi (Finland march) .

In contrast, the royal music director of the 1st Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 81 August Kalkbrenner (1847–1908) tried to prove as early as 1896 that Eriksson's march was an arrangement. The Nassau military music master and later Wiesbaden music director Benedict Stadtfeld (1788–1878) is said to have composed the melody as a dance piece before 1830. The dance in 2/4 time was initially referred to as a "slide", then as a "Russian" (short for "Russian waltz"), and is thus characterized as a gallop . He was also referred to as a “Berliner”, although this does not mean a dance form, but may already refer to the subtext that was later added. The attribution of the composition to Stadtfeld is based solely on the memories of the military musician Fr. Rosenkranz, former music master in the I.-R. 27. An autograph or other sources have not survived.

The piece was also published under the title Galopp von München under the name Hermann Bonn. Some of these publications go back to the 1820s. What speaks against Bonn as the author of the piece, however, is that he, who can be verified as an arranger between the 1820s and 1840s, otherwise never emerged as a composer.

A relatively new source discovery raises the question of whether the composition might date back to the end of the 18th century. A notation for a small ensemble of six to seven instruments can be found in the handwritten music book without specifying a composer 's name. / to / clavier. / for / Anna Margretha Ebio. / in / Tating started / Easter 1792 .

How exactly the march found its way to Saint Petersburg is not known. As Swinemünde Badegalopp it was published in 1870 under the name of the composer Carl Faust . In contrast, Hofmeister's monthly reports from 1842 show a Swinemünde bathing gallop under the composer's name C. H. Usedom.

In Berlin , since the second half of the 19th century, the song has also been sung as a hit on the text Think, think, you Berlin plant .

literature

  • The Petersburg March (AM II, 113). In: Bulletin. German Ges. Für Heereskunde, Military Music Working Group. 3rd year No. 6 - March 1980, ZDB -ID 1178902-5 , pp. 18-24 (= reprinted articles by Kalkbrenner 1896 and Theiß 1939).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A. Theiss: The Army March No. 113. In: Zeitschrift für Musik Jg. 106 (1939), No. 9, pp. 1058-1060 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ A b Hanns-Helmut Schnebel : Lexicon on military music in Württemberg. 2008. wlb-stuttgart.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ So the presentation in the article Suomi-marssi of the Finnish Wikipedia (as of February 20, 2016) with reference to the CD Soi raikuen Torvet ja rummut: Suomen sotilasmusiikin perinteitä sanoin, kuvin ja sävelin. Kaartin Jääkärirykmentin kilta ry, Helsinki 2006.
  4. ↑ a b Theodor August Kalkbrenner: The Army March No. 113. In: Neue Militär-Musik-Zeitung , ZDB -ID 1002112-7 . Part 1: August 21, 1896, Part 2: December 4, 1896.
  5. ^ Composers in Hesse
  6. ↑ Klaus Stöckel: My encounter with military music: The NVA military music school 1975–1990. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-2995-9 , p. 1928 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ a b Achim Hofer: The "Royal Prussian Army March Collection" 1817–1839. Origin - environment - description. Kliment, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85139-025-4 , pp. 103-107.
  8. ↑ 1778-1840
  9. ↑ Hartmut Friedel: The piano book of Anna Margretha Ebio. “Danz op de Deel” in Eiderstedt 200 years ago. In: Between Eider and Wiedau. Heimatkalender Nordfriesland 1999. Husum 1998, ISSN  0514-8413 , pp. 144–156. Quoted from: Achim Hofer: The "Royal Prussian Army March Collection" 1817–1839. Origin - environment - description. Kliment, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85139-025-4 , pp. 103-107.
  10. ↑ Hofmeister's monthly reports , March 1842, p. 40
  11. ↑ Lukas Richter : The Berlin hit song. Presentation, documents, collection. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1969 (plus habilitation thesis). New edition: Waxmann, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1350-8 , p. 369 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  12. ^ Niels Frédéric Hoffmann: Berlin song book. Songs and stories from 200 years. Elsengold, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944594-12-5 , pp. 48–51.