【Erzherzog Karl Marsch】卡尔大公进行曲

Hermann Josef Schneider has never been Military bandmaster. He is thus one of the few civil band masters of his time, who have secured a permanent place in the marching music sky of the Danube monarchy. Schneider spent most of his life in Bohemia. He received his musical education in the district town of Saaz - he was born in nearby Tepl - and later at the music school of the Ambrosius Association in Vienna. In 1881 he was called up to the military and spent his three-year service with the Infantry Regiment (IR) No. 62 in Maros-Vásárhely in Transylvania. In 1884 he was released. In the same year he returned to Saaz, he was appointed choir director at the parish church and took over as the Municipal Music Director the direction of the music of the uniformed vigilantes. After all, Schneider did not leave Saaz, but instead developed his musical activities there. Over 500 compositions, including marches, dances, clay paintings, various potpourris, religious music, but also two operettas, make him a versatile composer. Most of his music appeared in his own publishing house. Not known is the year of origin of his two most famous marches, which are still regarded today as true pearls of Austrian march art. The "Archduke-Carl-March", op. 562 was actually called "Archduke-Carl-Franz-Josef-Defiliermarsch" and was probably dedicated to the Archduke-heir apparent (from October 1914) in his capacity as owner of the IR 19. The march "Alt-Starhemberg" commemorates the heroic resistance of the defenders of Vienna under Ernst Rüdiger Count Starhemberg during the siege by Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa in 1683. Despite the officially assigned march of the same name by J.N. Fox was generally considered the real regimental march of the IR 54.