Kärntner Liedermarsch - MVSR2505 | Musica

The “Kärntner Liedermarsch” (“March on Carinthian Songs”) truly is kind of a Carinthian national anthem. It was composed by Anton Seifert (1826-1873) who was an Austrian military bandmaster. He served with the 12th Hungarian Infantry Regiment of the Line Archduke Wilhelm when the regiment was stationed in the Carinthian city of Wolfsberg in 1861. Seifert was in charge of the regimental band from 1847 until his death in 1873. Like many of his colleagues the talented musician was educated in Prague and militarily trained by the famous Austrian bandmaster Johann Schubert of Infantry Regiment No. 42. He also was active as a composer, as this march is his Opus 80. Seifert’s regiment later deployed to Olomouc, Hradec Králové, Komárno and finally to Krakow. The first printed edition shows the following dedication: “March on Carinthian Songs, composed for piano and dedicated to the Male Chorale in Klagenfurt by Anton Seifert, Opus 80, Hamburg August Cranz.”