Brase (Fritz, Director of the Army School of Music) Historic...

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Brase (Fritz, Director of the Army School of Music) Historical Pageant of Irish Martial Airs. Original Music Manuscript, quarto, laid into brown card covers, with orchestral parts separately written out, circa 100 pages in all. The work quotes from a wide variety of identified Irish 'martial airs'.
* Fritz Brase [1875-1940] was born near Hanover in Germany. He became a bandmaster in the Imperial German Army, and came to Dublin in 1923 to take charge of the new Army School of Music. His No. 1 Army Band gave many performances throughout Ireland, and also on the new radio station 2RN, to which it supplied many musicians. An exacting conductor, Brase made a substantial contribution to Irish musical life, though he did not support 'bad music' just because it was Irish (see DNB). Examples of his work as a composer/arranger are rare. (1)