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Flying Eagle

Blankenburg, Herman Ludwig Arr: Winter, A.

Flying Eagle By: Herman Ludwig Blankenburg Arr: A. Winter Original U.S. Copyright: 1914 by: Hawkes & Son

BandMusic PDF Library Ed Ballenger Collection Music Preservation Team:

Tom Pechnik, Senior Archivist; Mary Phillips; Wayne Dydo; Bill Park, Director; Marcus Neiman, Program Notes

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Rehrig, William H., Bierley, Paul (editor). The encyclopedia of band music, Integrity Press, Westerville, OH. (2005), CD, used with permission.

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Program note researched by Marcus L. Neiman Medina, Ohio

Flying Eagle (march) This nationalistic German march was published in 1914 by Hawkes & Son. One of Blankenburg’s more accessible marches, it was arranged by A. Winter and is among his most frequently performed works.

To date, nothing has been found of A. Winter

DOB: unknown DOD: unknown

Winter, A.

While still in his twenties, he had become respected as both a musician and a conductor, but he achieved international fame with the publication of Abscheid der Gladiatoren (A Gladiator’s Farwell) in 1906. The type of march in which Blankenburg excelled was one requiring excellent technique and facility. Blankenburg died in Wessel, Germany, in 1956, survived by his second wife, Kathe, and a grandson, Klaus.1

The only son of a farmer, it was expected that he would follow in his father’s footsteps. Music was his first love, however, and he pleaded with his father for permission to attend a music conservatory. Permission was granted, and he attended a military music school with the understanding that he remain in the army for twelve years and take up a career in civil service upon his discharge.

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg, who is believed to have composed more marches than any other composer, was born on November 14, 1876, in Thamsbuch, Thuringen, Germany. Although Blankenburg claimed to have composed over 1,000 marches, most are unknown today. Many are believed to have never been published or published in piano editions only. Unfortunately, much of his total output was lost in the devastation of World War II when German publishing firms and copyright offices were destroyed.

DOB: Nov. 14, 1876 (Thuringen, Germany) DOD: 1956 (Wessel, Germany)

Blankenburg, Herman L.