San Lorenzo march

The San Lorenzo march (Spanish: Marcha de San Lorenzo) is an Argentine military march. This piece of music was composed in 1901 by Cayetano Alberto Silva and named after the Battle of San Lorenzo ( 1813). Carlos Javier Benielli wrote a lyric for the march; Today, the San Lorenzo march is one of the most famous marches of Argentina.

Meaning and usage

Silva played his composition for the first time in July 1901 and dedicated it to the beginning of the following year Pablo Riccheri, Secretary of War under Julio Argentino Roca. Riccheri Silva was grateful for the tribute and asked to name the march to the Battle of San Lorenzo. Contrary to popular belief, the march was wearing at the beginning of the name San Martin ( by José de San Martín ), this was never the name of this composition.

In October 1902, the march was first performed in public at the Convento de San Carlos Borromeo and named the official march of the Argentine armed forces. His text was the march in 1907.

Between the years 1946 and 1959, the San Lorenzo march was the official symbol of the Argentine president and was played at every public appearance of head of state and the hoisting of the flag. Before and after the Marcha de Ituzaingó had held this position.

When the Wehrmacht invaded Paris in 1940, while the San Lorenzo march was played. When Charles de Gaulle visited Argentina in 1964, there was a faux pas, as the French President was intoned in honor of San Lorenzo march to this associated with the Nazi occupation of his country. Also in the liberation of Paris, the march was played on the occasion of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Similarly, the march was played at the coronation of George V and Elizabeth II and framed since 1911, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. During the Falklands War, however, was to dispense with the San Lorenzo march.