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Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fucik, a Bohemian composer and musician, was born
on 18. July 1872 in Prague. As a student he learnt to play the bassoon,
violin and various percussion instruments. Later he studied composition
with Anton Dvorak. In 1891 he joined an Austro-Hungarian Regiment in
Krems on the Danube as a military musician (Prague was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time) and played under Josef
Wagner. Later Fucik joined Karl Komzak´s military band in Vienna. In
1895 he left the army and became second bassoonist at the German
Theatre in Prague. During this time he composed mainly for clarinet and
bassoon.
Fucik became principal conductor of the Prague City Orchestra
as well as the conductor of the Danica Choir in Sisak, Croatia in 1896.
In 1897 Fucik rejoined the army as the bandmaster of the 86th Infantry
Regiment in Sarajevo in Bosnia. Shortly afterwards he wrote his most
famous piece, the march “Entrance of the Gladiators” (Einmarsch der
Gladiatoren). In 1900 his band was transferred to Budapest where there
were several other military bands keen to play his compositions. Having
more musicians at his disposal enabled him to experiment with
transcriptions of orchestral works.
In 1909 Fucik returned to Bohemia where he became the director of the
orchestra of the 92nd Infantry Regiment in Terezin, one of the finest
orchestras in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He toured with his orchestra
and played to audiences of over 10,000 people in Prague and Berlin.
In 1913 Fucik married and moved to Berlin where he started his own band
and the Tempo-Publishing-Company to market his own compositions and
music magazines. He concentrated on composing more music but his health
suffered a severe shock due to the events of the 1st World War. He
became ill and died on 15. September 1916 and was buried in Prague.
During his short life Julius Fucik composed an enormous number of over
400 pieces of music – chamber music, one mass and numerous marches,
e.g.: Florentinermarsch, Regimentskinder, Semper Avanti and of course
Entrance of the Gladiators.
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