Our First President's Quickstep

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"Our First President's Quickstep" cover sheet

"Our First President's Quickstep" is a quickstep march written by P. Rivinac for piano and published by Blackmar & Bros, Augusta, Georgia.[1] The march celebrates President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and was published the year he became president, 1861.[2][3]

About the author

P. Rivinac (1829 – 1915)[4] composed several other works for piano :[5] the "Atlantic Cable" waltz,[6][7] "Rivinac's Medley Quickstep" (1864),[8] " Pearl River Polka",[9] "Gen. Bragg's Grand March",[10], "Laughing Waltz",[11] "Rosemary Grand Waltz",[11] "La Rosianna" waltz.[12]

References

  • Abel, E. Lawrence (2000). Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-0228-6.
  • Holzer, Harold; Mark E. Neely Jr; Gabor S. Boritt (2000). The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. UNC Press. ISBN 0-8078-4905-7.

Notes

  1. Our first president's quickstep
  2. Abel, p. 99
  3. Holzer et al., pg. 13
  4. Category:Rivinac, P.
  5. The Sonneck Society Bulletin, Volumes 13-14, 1987, pp. 138-139
  6. "Atlantic Cable" waltz
  7. "Atlantic Cable" waltz, Internet Archive
  8. Rivinac's Medley Quickstep
  9. Pearl River Polka (Rivinac, P.)
  10. Gen. Bragg's Grand March, Internet Archive
  11. 11.0 11.1 "May Queen Polka", 1865, front page
  12. National Stockman and Farmer, Volume 22, 1898, p. 23