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Johann Heinrich Walch (1776–1855), was a German conductor, [1] [2] chamber musician and choral master for Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and after his death for Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the father of Queen Victoria's husband Albert, Prince Consort. [1]
Walch composed many well-known marches, some of which have long been wrongly attributed to Beethoven and the Prince Consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Many marches supposedly written by Prince Albert for cavalry regiments are actually by Walch, including the regimental quick march of the Somerset Light Infantry.
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Pariser Einzugsmarsch | At the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition, after the first major defeat of Napoleon, the allied forces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, marched into Paris on 31 March 1814 to the tune of the "Pariser Einzugsmarsch". The music was also used triumphally at the climax of the 1940 German victory parade through occupied Paris. Although credited initially to Beethoven, Walch is the composer. | Video on YouTube |
Beethoven Funeral March No 1 | The famous "Beethoven Funeral March Number 1" was for a long time wrongly attributed to Beethoven, and catalogued as WoO (work without opus number), Anh. 13, but was in fact composed by Walch. In the United Kingdom, the march is traditionally played at the National Service of Remembrance in London on Remembrance Sunday each year on the Sunday nearest to 11 November. It is played after the Last Post, during the Wreath Laying Ceremony. The march was also played during the funerals of King Edward VII (1910), of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (2002), of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (2013, during the procession to St Paul's Cathedral), of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (2021, during the procession to St George's Chapel), and of Queen Elizabeth II (2022, during the procession to the lying in state at Westminster). In the United States, the march was played during the funeral procession from the Capitol to the White House at the state funeral of President Kennedy on November 25, 1963. In Singapore, the march was played by the Singapore Armed Forces Band on 25 March 2015, during the foot procession from the Istana to the lying in state of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, at the Parliament House of Singapore. | Video on YouTube |
Beethoven Funeral March No 2 | By Walch, also wrongly attributed to Beethoven. Played e.g. during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. | Video on YouTube |
Beethoven Funeral March No 3 | Set in Bb minor. By Walch, also wrongly attributed to Beethoven. Played e.g. during the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. | Video on YouTube |
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840, until his death in 1861. He received the unique title of Prince Consort in 1857 from his wife.
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was an Ernestine duchy in Thuringia ruled by a branch of the House of Wettin, consisting of territories in the present-day states of Thuringia and Bavaria in Germany. It lasted from 1826 to 1918. In November 1918, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was forced to abdicate. In 1920, the northern part of the duchy was merged with six other Thuringian free states to form the Free State of Thuringia: Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Saxe-Altenburg and Saxe-Meiningen, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, as well as the People's State of Reuss. The southern part of the duchy, as southernmost of the Thuringian states, was the only one which, after a referendum, became part of the Free State of Bavaria.
Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was by marriage the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was the grandmother and godmother of both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband and cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The House of Wettin was a dynasty of German kings, prince-electors, dukes, and counts that once ruled territories in the present-day German states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The dynasty is one of the oldest in Europe, and its origins can be traced back to the town of Wettin, Saxony-Anhalt. The Wettins gradually rose to power within the Holy Roman Empire. Members of the family became the rulers of several medieval states, starting with the Saxon Eastern March in 1030. Other states they gained were Meissen in 1089, Thuringia in 1263, and Saxony in 1423. These areas cover large parts of Central Germany as a cultural area of Germany.
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Coburg is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was one of the capitals of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
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The Ernestine duchies, also known as the Saxon duchies, were a group of small states whose number varied, which were largely located in the present-day German state of Thuringia and governed by dukes of the Ernestine line of the House of Wettin.
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