Our First President's Quickstep
"Our First President's Quickstep" is a quickstep march written by P. Rivinac for piano and published by Blackmar & Bros, Augusta, Georgia.[1] The march celebrates President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and was published the year he became president, 1861.[2][3]
About the author
[edit]P. Rivinac (1829 – 1915)[4] composed several other works for piano :[5] the "Atlantic Cable" waltz,[6][7] "Rivinac's Medley Quickstep" (1864),[8] " Pearl River Polka",[9] "Gen. Bragg's Grand March",[10] "Laughing Waltz",[11] "Rosemary Grand Waltz",[11] "La Rosianna" waltz.[12]
References
[edit]- Abel, E. Lawrence (2000). Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-0228-6.
- Holzer, Harold; Mark E. Neely Jr; Gabor S. Boritt (2000). The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. UNC Press. ISBN 0-8078-4905-7.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Our first president's quickstep
- ^ Abel, p. 99
- ^ Holzer et al., pg. 13
- ^ Category:Rivinac, P.
- ^ The Sonneck Society Bulletin, Volumes 13-14, 1987, pp. 138-139
- ^ "Atlantic Cable" waltz
- ^ "Atlantic Cable" waltz, Internet Archive
- ^ Rivinac's Medley Quickstep
- ^ Pearl River Polka (Rivinac, P.)
- ^ Gen. Bragg's Grand March, Internet Archive
- ^ a b "May Queen Polka", 1865, front page
- ^ National Stockman and Farmer, Volume 22, 1898, p. 23
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