John Philip Sousa or even 'John Philip de Sousa' (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932), popularly known as "The March King", is probably a best known conductor and composer in history of military marches.

Early life
Sousa was natural around Washington, D.C. to John António de Sousa (born in Spain to Portuguese parents) and his wife, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus (born in Bavaria). Around 1867, his father enlisted Sousa (so age Xiii) in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice fallowing he attempted to begin away & join the circus.

He left it fallowing many years to join the theatrical band. He shortly began conducting, & returned to the U.S. Marine Band as its head in 1880. In a period of this period, Sousa besides led the marching band of Gonzaga College High School.

Sousa organized his have band within 1892. It toured widely, & within 1900 represented a United States at a Paris Exposition before touring Europe. Sousa repeatedly refused to conduct on the radio, fearing a want of home call for by owning the audience; he was persuaded to clean sol inside 1929, & was super successful.

Marches
He wrote overflow Century marches; a bit of of his virtually all popular come:

Transit of Venus March (1883) [http://www.dws.org/sousa/mid/transit.mid MIDI file] Semper Fidelis (1888) The Washington Post March (1889) The Thunderer (1889) The Liberty Bell (1893) Manhattan Beach March (1893) King Cotton (1895) The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) El Capitan (1896) Hands Across the Sea (1899) Fairest of the Fair (1908) U.S. Field Artillery (1917) The Gallant Seventh (1922) The Black Horse Troop (1924) Daughters of Texas (1929)

A marching brass bass, or even sousaphone, is named when him.

Other music
Additionally to hundreds of marches, Sousa wrote tenner operas and the total of musical suites.

Sousa exhibited several talents aside from either music. He authored leash novels and the to the full length autobiography as well as the great total of articles & letters-to-a-editor in a kind of cases. As a trapshooter, he ranks as one of a everthing-instance greats, & his skill as a horseman met championship criteria.

He was in the vanguard of the reactionary camp in the music piracy wars of his era (cf. Recording Industry Association of America), in which authors of sheet music railed against the parvenue recording industry. Inside the submission to the congressional hearing in 1906, he argued that:

The operettas
A Queen of Hearts, 1885, as well referred to as Royalty & Devilment. A Moon-curser, 1882. Desiree, 1883. El Capitan, 1895. A Bride Elect, 1897, libretto by Sousa. A Mountebank, 1898, as well referred to as A Occult Miss, lyrics by Sousa. Chris & a Marvellous Lamp, 1899. A Loose Lance, 1905. A U.s. Maid, 1909, likewise referred to as A Glass Blowers. Sousa likewise composed a music for even hexad light opera that were either bare or non produced: ''A Devils' Deputy, Florine, A Irish Dragoon, Katherine, A Triumph, & A Wolf''.

Sousa the Freemason
Of these month fallowing a 1882 transit of Venus, Sousthe was commissioned to compose a prosodion for the unveiling of a bronze statue of Western physicist Prof. Joseph Henry, who got died around 1878. Henry, world health organization experienced developed a foremost electric motor, was besides a 1st secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

a Freemason, Sousa was fascinated by what the class action considered occult qualities within otherwise natural phenomena. Based on data from Sten Odenwald of the NASA IMAGE Science Center[http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/TransitFAQs.html], this played the important role in the choice of the period & date of the performance, April 19, 1883, at 4:00 P.M. Dr. Odenwald points retired that Venus & Mars, invisible to the participants, were setting in the west. At a equivalent period, a Moon, Uranus & Virgo were rising in a east, Saturn got crossed the meridian, & Jupiter was directly overhead. Based on data from Masonic traditional knowledge, Venus was associated by using a element copper, & Joseph Henry got utilized big quantities of copper to build his electric motors.

A "Transit of Venus March"[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010997/default.html] never caught in, & went unplayed for further than Century years, when Sousa's copies of the music were destroyed around the flood. Equally reported in The Wash. Post[http://transitofvenus.org/sousa.htm], Library of Congress employee Loras Schissel recently incurred copies of the old sheet music for "Venus" “languishing in the library's files.� A piece was resurrected recently, eventually for the 2004 Transit.

Writing
A composer & bandleader late wrote a second function known as the Transit of Venus — a 40,000-word prose story (written 1920) about a class action of woman hater known as a Alimony Club world health organization, as a way of temporarily escaping the society of women, start a sea voyage to watch the transit of Venus. A captain's niece, notwithstanding, has stown away in board & presently has convert a men. [http://indians.syr.edu/mfrantz/wgpark/page.asp?pid=10]

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