NEW GERMAN MARCHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

NEW GERMAN MARCHES.

DEDICATED TO PARTY CHIEF. A • HINDENBURG COMPETITION. With Steel Helmet men, Communists, Iront Front men and Reichsbanner men marching and counter-marching on their way to the recent polls, their bands were playing new tunes. Adolf Hitler had his own Qrpheus in the person of his Press chief, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Harvard graduate, whose march, "Germany's Foehn," is heard on all festive Nazi occasions. The "foehn" is a hot southern wind which melts the snow in spring, and that is what Dr. Hanfstaengl intended his march to do.

President Hindenburg offered a prize —a picture of himself with dedication— in a competition for new marching tunes, initiated by the Deutsche Musik Preinieren Buehne, of Dresden.

To accentuate the militaristic character of the competition it was decreed that composers should inspire themselves* by contemplation of the battle of Sedan, in the Franco-Prussian war.

Some 200 marches- were, submitted, many coming from the German-speaking parts of Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. The jury awarded first prize to Alois Zimmermann, who submitted "Triumphator." William Hohlfeld, of the Dresden Philharmonic, won the second prize, a silver plaque 2 with "German Ocean Flyers," dedicated to the aviators Koehl and van Huenefeld. Third came "We Go Marching Along," by Edwin Georgi.