GERMAN MILITARY MARCH - The Double Eagle March 1938-45
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Too many misinformation on You Tube and your title is one of them. The Double Eagles March was written in honour to the Austria-Hungary Empire Flag and had nothing to do with Germany at that time.
The composer was a Viennese Army Officer Josef Wagner and had no relationship to the German composer Richard Wagner. He was actual a close friend of the Waltz King Johann Strauss Junior.
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Very good march, and one that I'm surprised to hear has a German origin. I played it in college and had no idea it wasn't an American original.
The march Alte Kameraden is also attributed to the Nazis, although written just after WWI and is also a very stirring march.
Give me our march king, JP Sousa anyday!
America Bless God so that God can once again bless America !
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2 people must not exist
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I like how I hear this at Busch Gardens :P
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i love german music
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Who is this version preformed by? I can't find it anywhere!
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@smartperson9 Obviously not a reichmarsch the double headed eagle is not a symbol of the Nazis.
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@skimdit Is that a bad thing?
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Yes, Unter dem Doppeladler by Josef Franz Wagner in 1902.
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We used to play this march in high school down here in little old New Orleans way back in the Sixties . Now all you hear is crisis and conflict music made popular by the Civil Rights movement. a lot of blapps and bleets.
This isn't actually a Reichmarsch, it's an Austrian march in existance long before the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. I think it was during Otto von Bismarck's rule that this was composed. Even though Bismarck's reign was the supposed 2nd Reich, it had nothing to do with the Nazis.
smartperson9 2 years ago 15
Just shows how international music can be. This piece is in the repertoire of the US and British Marine bands.
geraldlrstubbs 2 years ago 6