French National Defile Turlet, A.

Arr: Laurendeau, L. P.

French National Defile

By: A. Turlet
arr: L. P. Laurendeau

Original Copyright: 1908

By: Carl Fischer

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 Turlet, Andre

DOB: Unknown
DOD: Unknown

Planquette, Robert

DOB: July 31st, 1848 (Paris, France)

DOD: January 28th, 1903 (Paris, France)

Jean Robert Planquette (1848-1903) was born on July 31, 1848 in Paris,
but considered himself Norman. His father was a sculptor and modern
choral singer at the Paris Conservatory. Robert grew up under very poor
conditions, but studied at the Paris Conservatory, including with Jules
Laurent Duprato, and received a first prize in song and a second prize in
piano. He started his career as a pianist and composer of songs to later become famous for 23
operettas, of which the best known is Bells of Corneville which premiered in 1877. He was also a
versatile singer and was able to both sing baritone and falsetto tenor soli to mimic the female voices.
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He died on January 28, 1903 in Paris.

Louis-Philippe Laurendeau

DOB: 1861 (St. Hyacinthe, Canada)

DOD: February 13th, 1916 (Montreal, Canada)
Laurendeau, Louis-Philippe. Composer, writer, b St-Hyacinthe, Que,
1861, d Montreal 13 Feb 1916. He was active for many years in Montreal
and was bandmaster at the École militaire of Saint-Jean, but later he
devoted himself entirely to composition and arranging. Though a resident
of Longueuil (near Montreal), he occupied an editorial position with Carl
Fischer, the New York publishers.
Some 200 of Laurendeau's compositions and arrangements, mostly for
band and published by Fischer and Cundy-Bettoney, are listed in F.
Pazdírek's Universal-Handbuch (Vienna 1904-10). His intermezzo Twilight Whispers, Opus 202, won
first prize in the 1895 Metronome competition. Works of specific Canadian interest include Shores of
the St Lawrence, a medley for band, and Land of the Maple, Opus 235, a march.

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Laurendeau taught as well, and Fischer published several of his volumes of band instruction and
repertoire, including The New Era Band Book (Grades 2, 3) and The Practical Band Arranger. He
used the pseudonym Paul Laurent, but the National Library of Canada has record of only one
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publication on which it appears. A Montreal street was named after Laurendeau in 1931.

Le Regiment de Sambre et Muse (march) was published in 1908 by Carl Fischer, New York. One of
the most famous French marches outside France is Sambre et Meuse, which is almost considered
the French national march, played with bugles also in other countries.

About 1870, Planquette published his Refrains du Régiment [regimental refrains], a collection of
twelve military marches of which the most famous is Sambre et Meuse, which was a musical setting
of Paul Cézano's 1867 patriotic poem Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse with motifs from the French
Revolution. It refers to a mythical regiment named after the war-torn region of the rivers Sambre and
Meuse in northern France and Belgium.
At the request of a senior officer, the music director of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Joseph François
Rauski (1837-1910) arranged the march for military band. Over time Le Regiment de Sambre et
Muse became the regimental march of various military divisions in France and Canada.
A side bit of history for those who know the march as The French National Defilé March used by the
famed Ohio State Marching Band as they form their equally famed “Script Ohio.” A. Turlet was
erroneously credited as its composer. According to Dr. Paul Droste, a former director of The Ohio
State Marching Band, the march was chosen not because it was “exciting” or “spirited,” but rather
because its length happened to fit the amount of time it took the OSU marching band to complete the
field drills in forming script Ohio.

Program note researched by Marcus L. Neiman

Medina, Ohio

Additional information on either the composer or composition would be welcomed. Please send
information to
marcusneiman@zoominternet.net

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