Marche Militaire

Goldschmidt originally wrote the Marche Militaire in 1932 for the Berliner Funkstunde, a radio orchestra which he regularly conducted at this time. This version for wind band was made by him in 1938, after he had settled in London. He later said that he wanted to make a personal statement about the ominous threat of Nazism and the music’s grimly ironic character makes it clear that this is in every sense an anti-Marche Militaire. Later, in 1986, Goldschmidt incorporated the original version into his orchestral suite Chronica.