English Titled Marches
Who Wrote The Most Marches?
H.L. Blankenburg (German) 1876-1936, is probably
the most prolific writer of march music. He is credited with writing an average one or more new marches every week for years.
He had a total officially of 1328 but the actual number may never be known. His marches have been accused of sounding
somewhat alike but when you write that many marches it is understandable. His most famous marches were The Gladiators Farewell
(1907) and Action Front (1912). One of the things he did very well was write Baritone counter melodies.
There
have been many composers credited with writing over 100 marches. American composers include Sousa, witrh around 130, Filmore
113+, and King 188+, and James Fulton 140+. Of course these composers wrote many other pieces of music and
the number of marches written does not indicate the quality of the music.
These TRIVIA
pages are an ongoing project at the bottom of each page. If you care to help out, send me
your TRIVIA question of a general interest about march music and it could be added here! jB
