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Rittmeister Militaria, LLC. Imperial German Merchandise Page 37: Imperial German
Music on CD: Marches, Parades, Military Music, Band Music. Updated 9
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Music has always played an important part in German culture, from long before the Imperial Period up to the 21st Century. Birthplace of such musical giants as Handel, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Wagner, Orff, and Richard Strauss, Germany has long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for stupendous classical choral and symphonic works. It should come as no surprise, then, that Imperial Germany was well-known for its military music as well. At the turn of the 20th Century, Germany had approximately 560 military bands in existence, fielding between 15 to 42 musicians each. This included 220 infantry regimental bands, 70 Jäger and Schützen bands, 100 field artillery band, 25 foot artillery bands, around 100 cavalry trumpet-korps, three colonial Schutztruppen bands, one colonial police band, three railway-troops bands and 13 Imperial Navy Musikkorps (the latter held 65 musicians each). Each regiment and independent battalion had its own official march for presenting arms, as well as a parade march. The mounted units of the Kavallerie and Feld-Artillerie each had four separate marches designated for their use, ranging from presentation, to parades at pace, trot and gallop. (source for statistics: cd booklet, Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland: Military and Patriotic Music of Imperial Germany. Archival Recordings, 1903-1915, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2005.
We here at Der Rittmeister Militaria, LLC are pleased to offer a wonderful CD of Imperial German military and patriotic music entitled Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland. Issued by Brandenburg Historica, LLC, in 2005, it contains a number of the period's most famous marches and parades, all performed by original regimental bands from the time period! As their fact-filled, accompanying booklet states:
"This album was compiled from an assortment of discs originally recorded and manufactured between 1903 and 1915 by various record companies employing a wide variety of techniques. Though they stem from the acoustic age of recording (that is, before the invention of electric microphones and pick-ups), they have been engineered to maximize the surprising degree of fidelity already inherent to them--without altering the historical character of the recorded material in any way. These are the actual choruses, fifers, drummers and brass bands of Imperial Germany, presented exactly as they would have been experience one hundred years ago. When these records were manufactured, Germany was ruled by Hohenzollern dynasty that much of music in this compilation celebrates; Americans were living through the administrations of Presidents (Theodore) Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson; and Nicholas II, as Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias, was preparing to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. We therefore beg the listener to overlook the occasional surface noise on these recordings, which already have two world wars and various other conflicts behind them, and to consider the odd crackle a small price to pay to experience first hand the sounds of a world that existed a century ago." (source-cd booklet, Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland: Military and Patriotic Music of Imperial Germany. Archival Recordings, 1903-1915, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2005.
$19.95
37-01 GOTT, KAISER, VATERLAND: MILITARY AND PATRIOTIC MUSIC OF IMPERIAL GERMANY. Selections include Reichsadler-Marsch (Nieslony), Kaiser Parole-Marsch (Teike), Preussens Gloria-Marsch AM II, 240 (Piefke), Prinz Eitel Friedrich-Marsch (Blankenburg), and Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland-Marsch. There are TWENTY-FIVE SELECTIONS on this CD.
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SECOND CD:
MUSIC OF THE
IMPERIAL GERMAN NAVY!
Der Rittmeister Militaria, LLC, once again is pleased to offer the latest CD recording of Imperial German Music issued by Brandenburg Historica, LLC. This new recording was compiled in 2006, and has now been brought to market. Entitled Hoch Deutschlands Flotte!, the newest CD features 25 songs and marches of the Kaiserliche Marine, which existed from 1871 to 1918. As before, an extremely informative booklet is enclosed, explaining the Kaiserliche Marine, and showcasing information about the music. All of the selections were recording during the Imperial Period by regimental bands
and period orchestras. The issuers have cleaned up these archival recordings dating from 1907 to 1917. The occasional surface noise is again "a small price to pay to experience first hand the sounds of a world that existed a century ago." (source-cd booklet, Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland: Military and Patriotic Music of Imperial Germany. Archival Recordings, 1903-1915, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2005).
As the issuers state,
"The Kaiser’s Navy lives on in the memory of that eternal domain of myth and legend, the sea, and perhaps even now, amid the gales of the North Sea and South Atlantic, or the languid breezes of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the faint words can still be heard by those with the ears to hear, carried on the salt air when the wind is right: Volldampf voraus! - followed by a calm but deliberate acknowledgment from some long silent engine room - Volldampf voraus! Full Speed Ahead!" (source-cd booklet, Hoch Deutschlands Flotte!: Music of the Imperial German Navy. Archival Recordings, 1907-1917, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2006).
$19.95
37-02: HOCH DEUTSCHLANDS FLOTTE!: MUSIC OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN NAVY. Selections include Flaggenparade an Bord eines deutschen Kriegsschiffes, Prinz Admiral-Marsch (Jummel),
Das Lied von der Emden-Matrosenlied (Söchling-Böer), Unterseeboot-9-Szene (Schönwald) and Hoch Deutschlands Flotte!-Marsch (Friedemann), and twenty other evocative numbers. There are TWENTY-FIVE SELECTIONS on this CD.
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THIRD
CD:
MUSIC OF THE
IMPERIAL GERMAN CAVALRY!
Der Rittmeister Militaria, LLC, is happy to present Brandenburg Historica, LLC’s most recent CD recording of Imperial German Music. The new recording is a 2008 release entitled Wohlauf, Kameraden! (Come on, Comrades!). It features 22 German Cavalry marches and songs, most of which date from the 19th Century, and the 20th Century prior to 1918. Two or three songs date back into Friedrich der Große’s time, while one other comes from 1935, during the Wehrmacht period. What many people do not realize is that the German Cavalry remained an entity throughout the Reichswehr into the Wehrmacht, and did not officially cease to exist until 9 June 1945.
As the enclosed informative booklet states,
(source-cd booklet, Wohlauf, Kameraden!: German Cavalry Marches and Songs, 1928-1941. Archival Recordings, BH0934, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2008)."Within the German cavalry, tradition and functionality remained united as in perhaps no other branch of service.
The Reiter Regiments of the Reichswehr retained the lances carried by the uhlans of the old army until 1927, and these continued to be emblazoned with pennants according to time-honored custom; trumpeters accompanying officers on exercises sounded command signals unchanged since the time of Frederick the Great; sabers virtually identical to those wielded at Rossbach or Königgrätz remained standard equipment for cavalrymen as late as 1941; and following the establishment of the Wehrmacht’s Panzer arm in 1934, its tankers adopted the Totenkopf insignia of the élite Leibhusaren regiments of the old army, in acknowledgment of their roots in the cavalry."
The recordings on this CD were made from 1928 to 1941. The cavalry members belonged to Reichswehr Reiter Regiments from 1928 until 1935, when military sovereignty was declared. From that point until the last recording was completed in 1941, they were classified as Wehrmacht Kavallerie Regiments. The trumpets, other brass instruments, and kettledrums (specially mounted on the drummers’ horses) call and thunder majestically, recalling the era of Kaisers and Kings. (source-cd booklet, Wohlauf, Kameraden!: German Cavalry Marches and Songs, 1928-1941. Archival Recordings, BH0934, BRANDENBURG HISTORICA, 2008).
37-03 WOHLAUF, KAMERADEN!: GERMAN CAVALRY MARCHES AND SONGS, 1928-1941. Selections include Marsch der Pappenheimer Reiterschwadron (Rupprecht), Der Hohenfriedberger AM III, 1b (Trad.), Reiters Morgenlied (Silcher-Hauff), Kreuzritter-Fanfare (Henrion), and Trabmarsch des Regiments der Gardes du Corps HM III B, 7 (Trad.), and 17 other stirring numbers. There are TWENTY-TWO SELECTIONS on this CD. $19.95
$19.95 each, plus $8.00 shipping (this is for shipping within the U.S. ONLY, international shipments must inquire for the shipping price). Please note that this $8.00 price will hold no matter how many CD's are included, so if you want to have more than one volume, a second copy, or wish to include some of the Rangliste CD's [click here to go to our Rangliste Merchandise Page] , it will not cost you more than the original $8.00 fee.
You cannot imagine how stirring it is to listen to this music, knowing you are listening to some of the same bands to whom the Kaiser, Manfred von Richthofen, Otto Weddigen, or any of your other World War I favorites might have listened. We continue to sell these great CD's for only
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