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"Avenida de las Camelias" (Camellia Avenue) is an Argentine military march composed in 1915 by Pedro Maranesi.[a][1] It is a completely instrumental work usually played with bass drums and trumpets. Its vigorous rhythm makes it one of the main marches of the Argentine Armed Forces, which currently perform it in their parades and ceremonies,[2] next to the San Lorenzo march.
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Argentinian Military March “Avenida de las Camelias” (1915)
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History
Very little history is known about this march. Oral tradition dates its inspiration to 1915, when the 5th Army Division Band was rehearsing some marching maneuvers in a very little village in Salta Province called Campo del Durazno, in Rosario de la Frontera Department. A new street was opened there, which was named after Camellia flowers that were around it.[3] Maestro Pedro Maranesi took this fact and composed a march on the bass drumhead, and named it Avenida de las Camelias.
The march quickly earned a big popularity, being performed in numerous military parades, ceremonies and internal activities of the Argentine Armed Forces, and played by bands in foreign countries as well, such as Germany and Poland. It was also profusely used during the so-called National Reorganization Process, between 1976 and 1983, also called last military dictatorship.[3]
Notes
- ^ Born Pietro Maranesi.
See also
References
- ^ "Marchas militares patrióticas". lagazeta.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Historia de Bandas Militares - Las bandas desde 1880" (in Spanish). Revista del Suboficial. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ a b Luis Eduardo Meglioli (23 August 2018). ""Avenida de Las Camelias", ícono de las marchas militares" (in Spanish). Diario de Cuyo. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
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