Among the numerous marches that were dedicated to the Infantry Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister No. 4 that had been established in Donauwörth in 1696, the “Deutschmeister Regimentsmarsch” (“Deutschmeister Regimental March”) by Wilhelm August Jurek (1870-1934). Astonishingly enough this march was neither composed by Carl Michael Ziehrer, the regiment’s famous bandmaster at that time (1893) nor was it premiered by him as certain sources state. It came from the pen of the corporal Jurek and he is ...