When it was first played in front of Austrian officers, they spontaneously clapped and stamped their feet when they heard the chorus. The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards of the United Kingdom adopted the Radetzky March as its regimental quick march. Since 1896, the Radetzky has been the official presentation march of the Chilean Army's Military School of the Liberator Bernardo O'Higgins and the Paraguayan Army's Marshall Francisco Solano López Military Academy. Today, the theme is used in numerous promotional jingles and at major sporting events, in particular at football matches of the Austria national team. In 1932 Joseph Roth published his novel Radetzky March, chronicling the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Radetzky March's musical notes in Vienna.Īlong with the Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss Jr., the piece became an unofficial Austrian national anthem.
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