Обсуждение:Марш Лейб-гвардии Преображенского полка

Donajowski

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Page 13. Over a year ago now I had an email exchange with Lt. Col. Werner Probst (IMMS rep. Germany) about the origins of the Preobajenski March.

Until the 1980s in Germany it was thought to have been composed by Ferdinand Haase (1788-1851). Haase was born in Silesia but enlisted in the French army as a bandsman. Captured in Russia in 1812, he became one of Russian Grand Prince Constantine’s musicians and went on to have a distinguished career in the Russian army becoming Director of Music of the Guard Corps in St.Petersburg. He was thought to have composed this regimental march of The Preobajenski Guards in 1816.

Recent research undertaken by Werner, in consultation with a pre-eminent authority on Russian and Soviet music, the now late Bohumil Pesek of Prague, suggests that the tune is probably part of an 18th Century Russian hymn. In Russia the tune, there called Petrovski, is attributed to the time of Peter The Great (1672-1725). Haase was therefore only an arranger of a much earlier piece of music.

Here in Britain, Sir Vivian Dunn attributed the march he gave to the Royal Marines and the Life Guards to an Ernest Donajowski. Neither the Russians nor Germans I was in contact with had ever heard of Donajowski – did we British know something the Russians themselves had forgotten? Alas not!

I think I have finally got to the bottom of this mystery with a little research of my own. I found that Ernest Donajowski was born in Calais in 1845 and naturalised in England in 1874. He had a music publishing business in London from 1872-1917 and died on 22 April 1922. (His eldest son Reginald, who served as an officer with the King’s Own Royal Regiment from 1896, changed his name to Daubenny.) I think this clears up the mystery about this march’s composer. Although early 20th Century British copies of the march, predating Sir Vivian Dunn’s arrangement, credit Donajowski, as composer, he was either an arranger or perhaps just the publisher of an arrangement. The true composer is, I’m afraid, our old friend ‘Trad.’. -- Tony Dean

— Shakko (обс.) 18:32, 7 августа 2020 (UTC)