Waterloo
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 2: Armed Forces
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 2: Armed Forces / 2.1: Pre-Civil War
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content: Box 31, Folder J
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: These programmatic compositions are intended to describe in music the action of famous battles. The Battle of Prague, by the 18th century Bohemian composer Frantisek Koczwara, and the Battle of Waterloo both enjoyed great popularity in this country; there are many editions of these two pieces in the collection. The earliest edition of Battle of Waterloo in the DeVincent Collection dates from ca. 1810-1819 and lists C. Ogilvy as composer. Subsequent editions credit arranger G. Anderson as the composer. Several other European battles are also represented. (26 items)