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After the start of the Greek War of Independence, a band called the Musical Troupe (Μουσικός Θίασος) was created within the army. The troupe formed in 1824 started by French Colonel Charles Nicolas Fabvier. Based in then capital Nafplio, it was the first military band in Greek history.
During the Second World War and the Axis occupation of Greece, the band followed the Greek fleet's exodus to the Middle East, installed on the Ionia passenger ship (until 1943) and on the Greek cruiser Georgios Averof (from 1943 onwards). In 1946, the School moved to the Palaska Training Centre in Skaramanga, where it has remained until today.
A new era of Greek military music began during the First World War. A General Inspectorate of Military Music based in Athens and a military music band based in Thessaloniki were both established. [9] Defined the concept of military music as one consisting of folk bands, choirs and model bands.
Ernst Michael Mangel (1800, Karlsburg, Transylvania – 13 January 1887, Athens, Greece) was a Hungarian musician, composer, and philhellene, who became the director of the first military band of Revolutionary Greece and the Greek Kingdom.
Dance of Zalongo Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου, Horos tou Zalongou) refers to the mass suicide of Souliote women and their children that is said to have occurred in the aftermath of the invasion of Ottoman troops on Souli on December 16, 1803. The event is commemorated in Greece in the context of the Greek War of Independence.
Sacred Band (1821), of the Greek War of Independence; Cretan Sacred Band during the Cretan revolt (1866–1869) Cretan Student's Sacred Band, which participated in the Balkan Wars as a part of the Hellenic Army; Epirote Sacred Band (1914), formed during the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. Sacred Squadron (Greece), a ...
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The Sacred Band (Greek: Ἱερὸς Λόχος) was a military force founded by Alexander Ypsilantis at the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, in the middle of March 1821 in Wallachia, now part of Romania. It was formed by volunteers students of the Greek communities of Moldavia, Wallachia and Odessa. It was the first organized ...