Prussia's Glory
Prussia's Gloria ( Army March II, 143 ( Army March II, 240) and Army March II, 98) is a famous Prussian March of the 19th century. The composer was music director Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815–1884) of the Leib Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm III." (1st Brandenburg) No. 8 in Frankfurt an der Oder .
history
Prussia's Gloria was created in 1871 after the victory of Prussia and its allies over France in the Franco-Prussian War that led to the establishment of the German Empire . The march was premiered in Frankfurt (Oder) for the victory parade of the returned troops. Since Piefke only had it performed on special occasions, the march remained unknown to the general public for a long time. The march appeared in print for the first time in 1898.
However, Preussens Gloria only became famous after 1909, when Lieutenant General Hugo Elstermann von Elster , who was a company commander in the Leib-Grenadier Regiment No. 8 from 1894 to 1899 and who enjoyed the march, sent the notes from Frankfurt to Berlin let. The music corps of the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot , whose commander Elstermann von Elster became in 1908, practiced the march under his senior music master Hugo Goerisch . One day in the spring of 1909, the palace guards set up on foot by the 3rd Guards Regiment moved into the Berlin Palace to the sound of Prussia's glory . The Emperor came, as always, when the guard was visible on the balcony. He liked the march immediately, because after the changing of the guard he had head music master Goerisch fetched and asked about the piece. Word of this process got around in the Berlin garrison in no time at all, so that in the next few weeks the guard of every Berlin guards regiment moved into the palace with Prussia's Gloria . In 1912 the march was included in the Prussian army march collection and edited in 1914 by Theodor Grawert and Oskar Hackenberger . Thanks to Grand Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia , it was so well received by the Navy that it was also considered a naval march. In the two world wars, too, Prussia's Gloria was part of the standard repertoire of German military music and was often played at military events such as victory celebrations, swearing-in ceremonies or field parades.
In the GDR , the march was a musical symbol of militarism and was accordingly missing in the repertoire of the music corps of the National People's Army . In the Federal Republic of Germany is one of Prussia's Glory to the most popular military marches of the Armed Forces and is therefore also in film and television repeated cliché associated with the German military in conjunction. It is often played on public occasions, especially on state visits , and is, among other things, the traditional march of the Air Force Training Command . But it is also part of the standard repertoire of many foreign military music. In Germany, due to its high level of popularity, it is also regularly played by amateur wind orchestras. As the standard march in particular in the Rhineland , in Westphalia , in Lower Saxony and in Waldeck popular shooting festivals .
Web links
Audio samples
- Preussens Gloria on YouTube , recorded by the Musikkorps der Bundeswehr , Siegburg; Head: Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Scheibling .
Individual evidence
- ^ Prussia's Gloria & German Emperor March . In: German army marches . Volume 2 . Booklet accompanying the double CD of the same name by the Bundeswehr Music Corps . Raatz Music Agency, Frechen 2018, p. 52f.
- ↑ Bernd Zivny: The military music of the NVA . Attempt at an outline . In: Michael Schramm (Ed.): Music and State - The military music of the GDR . Documentation for the symposium . Bonn 2010 (= Military Music in Discourse . Vol. 5), pp. 42–57, here p. 47.