Richard Henrion

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Richard Henrion (born March 9, 1854 in Artern , † January 9, 1940 in Stettin ) was a German composer and military bandmaster.

Life

Henrion came from a family of actors. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to the town music director of Seehausen . In 1874 he came to Magdeburg to play military music, where he learned from Gustav Rebling . After stations as a military musician in Brandenburg , Metz and Prenzlau , he became head of the music corps of the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1st Pomeranian) No. 2 in Stettin in 1897 . He stayed in Szczecin until the end of his life, where he was appointed Royal Music Director in 1914 and retired from military service in 1920. During Henrion's time, military music often played public concerts. In summer he conducted garden concerts and in winter gave concerts in cooperation with the Stettiner Musikverein under Carl Adolf Lorenz .

Recording of the Beka from September 1904 with the Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch

Henrion wrote over 350 compositions, including over 100 marches. He is best known for four fanfare marches composed in 1893, including the “ Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch ”. The text We want to have our old Kaiser Wilhelm again was often sung to the melody of this latter piece - especially since the end of the German Empire in 1918 . In this form, it has become a popular hit , the melody symbolized both a nostalgic and transfigured as well as a critical and ironic approach to the "good old days".

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SURNAME Henrion, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and military bandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Artern
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1940
Place of death Szczecin