JGBaroque says
A lot of listeners have been wishing for more marches of German origin. I have searched for interesting tunes to arrange, and was a bit dumbfounded when I realized I had looked past one of the most well-known ones - "Der Pappenheimer (Marsch)", the "March of the Count of Pappenheim", referring to Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim, a feared Cavalry Commander in the Thirty Years War who served under Johann Tserclaes von Tilly in the army of the Holy Roman Empire, but who fell in the Battle of Lützen. The structure and tempo of the march reveals it as a typical Cuirassier March for trumpets and kettledrums, but I decided to make an arrangement for fifes & drums, as there are fewer of those. The image shows the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, where Pappenheim served in the Imperial army that defeated the Protestant Bohemian forces of Christian I of Anhalt. The painting was made in 1630 by the Flemish artist Pieter Snayers.
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