English Translation

the power of love came to the introduction and since that time is the book of the cone stroke. After the liberties the so-called "retraite" was added to the cavalry and recomposed into a harmonic movement. Unfortunately, the name of the composer has not become known. The retraite itself is composed of cavalerie signals of the Frideric era. It consists of so-called three posts. This has its relation in the following: As long as the horseman endured, there was with her signal trumpeter. The trumpeter of the guard blew the cone stroke at the fixed time, at which the soldier had to be in his quarters. Barracks existed at that time little or not at all. It was not until the Frideric period that the soldiers were moved to barracks. So that the soldier did not miss the time of return to his quarters (because pocket watches could only afford quite rich people), the trumpeter of the guard blew the "retraite". The three posts were blown at intervals, as still today with the mounted troop. So when the first post sounded, the soldier marched back to the quarters and was able to reach there slowly or quickly until the end of the third post, depending on the route to be travelled. Probably there is also a so-called pompous strike in the armies of other nations. However, none of the solemn effects of the German Wehrmacht is as great. Those who stood on blood-soaked battlefields, where the night let their dark shadows sink down, when the moaning of the wounded and dying sounded gruesome, will have been overwhelmed by deep seizures at the sounds of the cone stroke. King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who composed himself and whose pen was the famous Prussian Präsentiermarsch, gave rise to an army collection. Even though not all old marches are made out of it, many have survived. King Friedrich William III, it is thanks to all these beautiful marches that have not been forgotten. The transformation in the instrumentation has brought about the fact that the marches had to be re-instrumented. Already 100 years ago the first printed army march collection appeared. May our marches move also in very simple forms; it speaks from them the past and origin of our present military music. Military music has taken its place in the heart of the people, it will keep it; for military music touches the strings of the human soul, which will always sound as long as heroism, bravery and courage are indispensable building blocks of life's design. Prof. Hermann Schmidt Senior Musicinspizient Der Bertramshof / After a drawing by Math. Wohli