English Translation

The Hohenfriedberger March is probably the most heroic of the old Prussian military marches and the real fanfare of fame of the Prussian army. Therefore, it is an understandable desire of the many admirers of military music to attribute precisely this march to Frederick the Great. As long as there is no proof that speaks against this tradition, it may therefore remain. The actual service of the military musicians has always been the accompaniment of the troupe on tiring marches. Encouraging play on the march as well as in the camp, where after the darkness of the cone stroke was blown. The name "Zapfen-streich" comes from the Thirty Years' War. In it the camp life played a leading role. Less the battles than the wilful activity of the Landsknechts burdened than the land plague on villages and cities. Here was examined and played on the rumbling drum, which had just been pressed off the poorest. Every evening at a fixed time the marketers had to drive in the cone or pound of their wine barrel "stretch", i.e. beat in. The sign to this closing of the barrel gave by order of the Profoß (Obrists) drum beats, which thus offered night's rest: first sounded "the curling (i.e. as much as prepare) and then the "tap strike" or "tack strike". Now nothing was allowed to be tarnished in the camp. In today's form, however, the coup d'état originates from the wars of freedom and dates back to the following historical event: When King Frederick William III rode over the battlefield with the Tsar Alexander of Russia the evening after the bloody battle at Groß-Görschen to visit his brave troops, they came to the wing of the army where the Russian army stood. Here sounded just the dull drumbeat of the cone stroke, with the soldiers' lifted head standing in ranks in silent devotion. The king was deeply seized by this celebration and ordered the same for his army on the same night. Cabinet The Deutsches Opernhaus (Neues Deutsches Theater) ordre was determined that in the field camps in front of the flags the assembled trumpeters and hoboists would have to blow a short evening song after a stoppage. The spiritual folk song "I worship