English Titled Marches
HL Jollies - K Alford - UTUBE
Who Wrote The March Used for Script Ohio?
The
march used by the Ohio State University Marching Band for their famous Script Ohio is called (in French) Le Regimet
de Sambre et Meuse or (in English) The Sambre-Meuse Regiment, sometimes refereed to as the "French National Defile March."
It was written by Robert Planquette, (1848-1903) born in Paris, France. He wrote the march at age1
9 and subsequently sold it and all rights rights for practically nothing because he was hungry. It was later
arranged for full military band by J.F. Rauski and first played in 1879. Planquette wrote mostly operettas
and wrote few marches except those that were included in his other works.
