Carl Faust - Defilier Marsch (1855)
Carl Faust (born 18 February 1825 † 12 September 1892) was a German military musician and composer.
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Defilier Marsch (1855)
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The "Defiliermarsch", which has also been part of the army march collection since 1857 (AM II, 168), was created in 1855. With him, Faust took part in a competition held by the Berlin publishing house Bote & Bock and received 1st prize for him. It was the parade march of the Royal Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 13 in Ulm. On the sheet music below the title the prize is acknowledged as: "Preis Marsch".
Carl Faust completed his schooling in Neisse. Because of his musical talent, he was then trained as a military musician in Sankt Annaberg in Upper Silesia.
In 1853 he was appointed staff oboist and took over the leadership of the music corps of the 36th Prussian Fusilier Regiment in Halle (Saale). In 1859 he was transferred to the Silesian Grenadier Regiment No. 11 in Breslau. In 1865 he quit military service and took over the orchestra direction of the Philharmonic in Waldenburg, where he was appointed city music director in 1869.
His polka "Die Marketenderin" was also included in the army march collection as a trotting march (HM III B, 36). Today it is printed as serial number 213 in the marching books of the publishing house Bote & Bock (Boosey & Hawkws).
His march "Mit klingendem Spiel", op. 177, became the regimental march of the Infantry Regiment No. 90 in Rostock, also known is the "Steiger March", as a variation with the well-known Steigerlied.
His quadrille op. Until the 1960s, 40 was the standard choice for the "Quadrille des Lanciers"
His march Glück auf, op. 127 (1865). This was so well received as his masterpiece in the neighboring Kingdom of Saxony – possibly because of the well-known Freiberg miners' song "Schon wieder tönt's vom Schachte her ..." – that the 2nd Saxon Grenadier Regiment in Dresden was assigned it as a parade march. This regiment resided alongside the grenadiers of the 1st Grenadier Regiment in the large barracks area of Dresden's Albertstadt until the fall of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1918. The Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 77, founded in 1860, was also assigned the piece as a regimental march. After 1866 and the end of the Austro-Prussian War, it was renamed the "Skalitz March" in Austria. In 1933, the Army Music Stage Manager Hermann Schmidt included it in the Army March Collection as HM II, 126. In 1961, the march Glück auf! was included in the marching books of the Bundeswehr as serial number 157.