Militär Kapelle, Schützen Marsch (Columbia E7387, 1922)

About this film

Performer: Militär Kapelle [i.e., Unidentified Military Band] Matrix and take number: 86962-3 Catalog number: Columbia E7387 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: 3-A-2 86962 Title: Schützen Marsch (composed by Emil Oslender) Military Band | German Recorded New York, NY, ca. January 1921. Released in 1922. Label printing date code: BP (= 1921) Notes Performed by an unidentified military band. This could simply be a Columbia studio band (a.k.a. Columbia Band) led by Columbia's musical director, Charles Adams Prince. The "Schützen-Marsch" [= Target Shooters' March] was composed by German-American composer Emil Oslender (1870 Aachen, Germany – 1930 New York, NY, USA). After emigrating to the United States in 1905, Oslender worked as a musical director in New York. He directed the Bronx Männerchor (Bronx Male Choir), among others. Target shooter clubs (Schützenvereine) have a long history in Germany. Many were founded after the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century, and almost every village has a Schützenverein and celebrates an annual target shooters festival. The Karlsschützengilde in composer Oslender's hometown of Aachen goes back even further. It is first mentioned in 1198, but it m…

Directors & creators

Militär Kapelle, E. Osländer, Emil Oslender

Subjects

78rpm, Ethnic, German, March

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