Annotation:Cossack's March (The)
COSSACK(S) MARCH, THE. AKA and see "Buonaparte's March," "Bonaparte's Grand March (1)," "Bonaparte's March (2)," "Hanoverian March," "Napoleon's March," "Prince Albert's March (2)." Irish (?), March (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCC. "Cossack's March" was composed by Joseph Ganter[1] and published in 1836. The melody is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[2], and also in Book 4 (p. 155) of the mid-19th century collection of County Cork cleric and uilleann piper James Goodman. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor identified the composer of the march as Stephen Glover (1813-1870), and although it appears that Glover did compose a tune by that title, this particular "Cossack's March" may predate him (in view of the alternate title references to Napoleon Bonaparte). See note for "Bonaparte's Grand March" for more.
- ↑ Ganter may have been a court musician in Germany who came to America when he found himself on the wrong side of a political dispute.
- ↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.