Prussian March - Der Dessauer Marsch (Fife and Drum)

Der Dessauer Marsch (Fife and Drum version) performed by “Kong Frederik IVs Tambourafdeling Af 1704“ from Norway The Dessauer Marsch (Armeemarsch I, 1b) is a slow infantry march. It is believed that the march originated from Italy. The melody of a folk song was played for Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau after the Battle of Cassano (1705). He enjoyed the march so much, that by the time of the Battle of Turin (1706) the march was played at his entrance to the city. Leopold I, byname The Old Dessauer, German Der Alte Dessauer (born July 3, 1676, Dessau, Prussia—died April 7, 1747, Dessau), prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal and reformer and inventor of the iron ramrod; he founded the old Prussian military system that, generally unchanged until 1806, enabled Frederick II the Great to propel Prussia to the position of a European power. Sources: