"Our First President's Quickstep" is a quickstep march written by P. Rivinac for piano and published by Blackmar & Bros, Augusta, Georgia. The march celebrates President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and was published the year he became president, 1861.
About the author
P. Rivinac (1829 – 1915) composed several other works for piano : the "Atlantic Cable" waltz, "Rivinac's Medley Quickstep" (1864), " Pearl River Polka", "Gen. Bragg's Grand March", "Laughing Waltz", "Rosemary Grand Waltz", "La Rosianna" waltz.
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
- Our first president's quickstep
- Abel, p. 99
- Holzer et al., pg. 13
- Category:Rivinac, P.
- The Sonneck Society Bulletin, Volumes 13-14, 1987, pp. 138-139
- "Atlantic Cable" waltz
- "Atlantic Cable" waltz, Internet Archive
- Rivinac's Medley Quickstep
- Pearl River Polka (Rivinac, P.)
- Gen. Bragg's Grand March, Internet Archive
- ^ "May Queen Polka", 1865, front page
- National Stockman and Farmer, Volume 22, 1898, p. 23
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