Fucik’s Entrance of the Gladiators: A Musical Meme

Julius Ernest Wilhelm Fučík (1872-1916) March specialist from Prague. Nicknamed the Bohemian Philip Sousa.

Fucik‘s opus 68, originally named the Grande Marche Chromatic, finally called Vjezd gladiátorů (Czec for Entrance of the Gladiators), is sometimes known as Thunder & Blazes and many other things too.

If you desire more Fucik, here’s the perennially underrated Navy March Band playing the march de L’Ocean.

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