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Sousa holding a copy of the sheet music for his march "The Invincible Eagle" John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. [1] He composed 136 marches from 1873 until his death in 1932.
List of compositions by John Philip Sousa "King Cotton", a 1895 Sousa military march, performed by the United States Marine Corps Band. It was penned for the Cotton States and International Exposition in that year. This file adds significantly to the following articles: "King Cotton" Cotton States and International Exposition; John Philip Sousa
Sousa's birthplace on G St., S.E. in Washington, D.C. John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C., the third of 10 children of João António de Sousa (John Anthony Sousa) (September 22, 1824 – April 27, 1892), who was born in Spain to Portuguese parents, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus (May 20, 1826 – August 25, 1908), who was German and from Bavaria.
Sousa retired from touring in 1931 and died a year later, on March 6, 1932. By that time, popular musical tastes had passed him by. Americans were into swing music now.
King Cotton is a military march composed in 1895 [1] by John Philip Sousa, for the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895). The expression "King Cotton" in general refers to the historically high importance of cotton as a cash crop in the southern United States. The form is as follows; the number of bars is indicated in the parentheses.
The "U.S. Field Artillery March" is a patriotic military march of the United States Army written in 1917 by John Philip Sousa after an earlier work by Edmund L. Gruber. The refrain is the "Caissons Go Rolling Along". This song inspired the official song of the U.S. Army, "The Army Goes Rolling Along".
Hinton suggested "The Liberty Bell" for the title of Sousa's unnamed march. Coincidentally, Sousa received a letter from his wife saying their son had marched in a parade in honor of the Liberty Bell. Sousa agreed, and he sold "The Liberty Bell" sheet music to the John Church Company for publication; the new march was an immediate success. [2]
Sousa prefaced the sheet music's score with a quotation from the English diplomat John Hookham Frere: "A sudden thought strikes me; let us swear eternal friendship." [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The march was composed in the wake of the Spanish–American War and is idealistic, in addition to patriotic, in nature.