What song was played before the military parade?

Playing the Russian national anthem before the military parade is also the national anthem of the former Soviet Union. The first song played at the beginning of the military parade was Farewell to Slavic Women.

This March was originally military music, and it was written in 19 12, dedicated to all Balkan women who "sent Lang to the battlefield". At that time, there was a political crisis in the Balkans, and Balkan countries set off a struggle for freedom from Ottoman rule in Turkey. The author Vasily Ivanovich Agap root was a famous player in the czar's army at that time.

194 1 year, Nazi Germany flagrantly launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. In order to inspire the Soviet people to resist Nazi aggression, this military music once again sounded on Russian soil. At the "October Revolution Festival" parade on 194 1, Vasily Ivanovich Agapugen personally served as the conductor of the band as music for Soviet soldiers before they went to the front.

Song introduction

Farewell to Slavic is a Russian patriotic March composed by composer and conductor Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin. Under the influence of the First Balkan War (1912-1913), Agapkin wrote this work.

The March consists of two parts, and its original motivation comes from the introduction and chorus of a song during the Russian-Japanese War.

Agapkin decided to take his draft music score to Simferopol: Yakov Bograd, a famous composer and music score publisher, lived and worked in this city at that time. Bogle helped to record the piano arrangement and write the band score for the music for free.

Together, they composed a trio and named this March "Slavic Farewell Song" (translator's note: прощаниеславянк).

Soon after, Bogle printed 65,438+000 copies of music in Simferopol Printing House. On the cover of the first edition of the score, it depicts a young woman bidding farewell to a soldier. The Balkan mountains are faintly visible in the distance, and a group of soldiers are marching. There is an inscription on the cover: "The latest March, for the Balkan War. Dedicated to all Slavic women. Agapkin's works. "