Johann Heinrich Walch (1776 - 1855), was a German
conductor, chamber musician and choral master for both
the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg as well as of the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha in the current
German state Thüringen. He was also the composer
of many well-known marches.
The famous "Beethoven Funeral March Number 1" played at
the funeral of King Edward VII and also at the National
Service of Remembrance
in London on Remembrance Sunday each year on the Sunday
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Johann Heinrich Walch (1776 - 1855), was a German
conductor, chamber musician and choral master for both
the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg as well as of the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Gotha in the current
German state Thüringen. He was also the composer
of many well-known marches.
The famous "Beethoven Funeral March Number 1" played at
the funeral of King Edward VII and also at the National
Service of Remembrance
in London on Remembrance Sunday each year on the Sunday
nearest to 11 November. It is played after the playing
of the Last Post, and during the Wreath Laying
Ceremony. It is also announced as "Beethoven's Funeral
March" on the BBC Television commentary.
For a long time, the march was wrongly attributed to
Beethoven, and catalogued as WoO (work without opus
number), Anh.13.
The march was played during the processions to the
lying in state at Westminster of Queen Elizabeth II,
her husband Prince Philip Duke of
Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, at the
procession to St Paul's Cathedral at the funeral of
former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher on 17 April 2013, and during the
procession to St George's Chapel at the funeral of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 17 April 2021. On
25 March 2015, this same march was also played by the
Singapore Armed Forces Band during the foot procession
from the Istana to the lying in state of Lee Kuan Yew,
Singapore's first Prime Minister, at the Parliament
House of Singapore. [Wikipedia]
