Imperial German Navy Music CD (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

Beau Geste has produced 4 sets of German Imperial Navy Bands. Collectors may be interested to know that Brandenburg Historica of Keene, New Hampshire has recently released a CD of 25 authentic recordings of the Imperial German Navy Band dating from 1907 to 1917. The CD cover is shown below along with the appropriate Beau Geste sets. Here is a link to the CD website: http://www.brandenburghistorica.com/hoch_deutschlands_flotte.html

 

[PolarBear]

German Colonial Navy Band (1914-1918) (winter dress) in front of the Kaiserliche Marine War Ensign (Reichskriegsflagge) 1903–1919.

 

[PolarBear]

Here is a period photograph showing the flag in the previous post

 

[PolarBear]

The CD is also available from Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Deutschlands-Imperial-Archival-Recordings-1907-1917/dp/B000R181LC

 

[4th Hussar]

So much more martial than Brit or American military music. Surprised these guys did not try to take over the world..................Oh, they did, twice.

 

[PolarBear]

So much more martial than Brit or American military music. Surprised these guys did not try to take over the world..................Oh, they did, twice.

Hussar

You are forgetting America's own contemporary Imperial moment and the music that went along with it. In the late 19th C the United States made its own play for expansion and Empire in the Caribbean and Pacific as seen in the Spanish American War and subsequent Phillppine Insurrection from 1898-1902. That Imperial moment was accompanied by the very martial strains of the music of John Philip Sousa such as Stars & Stripes Forever (1896) and Invincible Eagle (1901).The uniform plate below showing the U.S. Navy Band of 1897 demonstrates the influence of the German Imperial military on American military thinking of the period including the "pickelhaube" style helmets. Even American higher education came under German influence in the late 19th C. In 1876, Johns Hopkins, for example, became the first university in the United States to emphasize research, applying the German university model developed by Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher. It would be interesting to see Beau Geste do a U.S. Navy band set like the one below someday
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