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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Fanfare Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments - "Farewell of Slavianka"


In the following video the Fanfare Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments performs "Farewell of Slavianka," which was composed in 1912 by V. Agapkin, a cavalry-man and student of trumpet and composition at the Tambov Music College.

The march commemorates events in the Balkan wars of liberation from the five-hundred-year-long power of the Ottoman Empire, and was dedicated to all Slav women who sent their men to fight for freedom. (Slavianka means "Slavic woman").





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