Militär Kapelle, Turner Marsch (Columbia E7387, 1922)

About this film

Performer: Militär Kapelle [i.e., Unidentified Military Band] Matrix and take number: 87467-1 Catalog number: Columbia E7387 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: 1-A-5 87467 Title: Turner Marsch (composed by Jan Pehel) Military Band | German Recorded New York, NY, ca. May 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 "Turner-Marsch" [= Gymnasts' March] is op. 119 of Czech composer Jan a.k.a. Johann Pehel (1852 Husinec-1926 Prague), written in 1898. Pehel was one of the leading military band directors in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire and president of the Military Band Directors' Association. In the early 1880s, he led the band of the Sokol [Czech sport's club] in Choceň. The German equivalent of a Sokol is a Turnverein [German gymnastics club] (in fact, the first Sokol was inspired by the German Turnverein movement, founded in 1811 by Friedrich Jahn). Many Turners promoted a unified, democratic Germany in the 1848 German revolution, and when it failed, they emigrated to the United States and…

Directors & creators

Militär Kapelle, J. Pehel, Jan Pehel, Johann Pehel

Subjects

78rpm, Ethnic, German, Turnen, March

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