Military march (Bruckner)

The Marsch in E-flat major, WAB 116, is a military march composed by Anton Bruckner in 1865.

Bruckner composed this for him unique work on 12 August 1865 during his stay in Linz, at the time when he was composing his first symphony,[1] He composed this occasional work for the Militär-Kapelle der Jäger-Truppe (Military band of the hunting troop) in Linz, as a gesture of appreciation for its participation in performances of two of his works, the festive cantata Preiset den Herrn and Germanenzug.

[3] The work, a march of 32-bar and a trio of 32 bars too, is scored in E-flat major for military band (piccolo, 5 clarinets, 2 flugelhorns, 7 trumpets, 3 horns, 2 trombones, 3 euphoniums, 2 tubas, drums and bass drum).

4], where the dense and brilliant brass scoring recalls Bruckner's 1865 infantry march in E flat, WAB 116 ...[5]Another military march, the Apollo-Marsch, was for many years attributed to Bruckner and put as WAB 115 by Grasberger.

10 by Béla Kéler, another Kitzler's student,[7] while Bruckner copied the instrumentation and form exactly, but not the music, for his own Marsch in E-flat major.