Music Set #203 - Berlioz - Rakoczy March

Hector Berlioz  

[ɛk'tɔʁ bɛʁ'ljoːz] [BARE-lee-O’s] (1803-1869)

The Damnation of Faust / La damnation de Faust – Rakoczy March

by the YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Originally a slow and sad song by an unknown writer, it was then frequently rewritten to various tempos and versions, and named after Prince Rakoczy, a Hungarian national hero. 

Berlioz rewrote it as a Hungarian March (La Marche Hongroise) for concerto, and made it the 4^th song in Part 1 of his operatic Damnation of Faust. 

       
Here, the aging scholar Faust (as Goethe’s Faust 歌德名著浮士德) hears an army marching past in the distance.