An 1844 advertisement for a musical event organised by Piefke
Johann Gottfried Piefke (9 September 1817 – 25 January 1884) was a German band leader, (Kapellmeister) and composer of military music.
Piefke was born in Schwerin an der Warthe, Prussia (now Skwierzyna, Poland). In the 1850s, he was band leader for the 8th Infantry Regiment in Berlin. His famous marches include Preußens Gloria, Düppeler Schanzen-Marsch and the Königgrätzer Marsch – the latter composed after the Battle of Königgrätz in 1866, the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War).[1][2] He arranged Franz Liszt's symphonic poem – Tasso for military band and may also have similarly arranged some of Liszt's marches. He died in Frankfurt an der Oder.
Piefke also wrote:
Pochhammer Marsch
Siegesmarsch
Gitana Marsch
Margarethen Marsch
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Siegesmarsch
Der Alsenströmer, a march commemorating the Battle of Als during the Second Schleswig War.
Der Lymfjordströmer, another march commemorating the Danish War.
^Hakkarainen, Heidi (11 July 2019). Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna. Berghahn Books. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-78920-274-8.
^Markovits, Andrei S. (10 August 2021). The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness. Central European University Press. p. 280. ISBN 978-963-386-422-7.
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