Love and Theft - Whiskey on My Breath

GAAZE Fyodor (Ferdinand) Bogdanovich [2 VIII 1788, Silesia - 18 (30) X 1851, Petersburg] - USA. military man. bandmaster. German by nationality. He participated as a volunteer franz. Army in USA the campaign of 1812. He was captured. Since 1816, bandmaster Rus. troops in Warsaw. From 1830 he lived in St. Petersburg, was the bandmaster of the guards and grenadier corps, supervised the training of musicians of the guard troops, for many others. years conducted concerts in favor of the disabled. The author of marches (including the famous "Transfiguration March"), arrangements for the spirit. Orchestra production classics (“Beethoven's Pathetic Sonata”, choirs from the oratorio “Paul” by Mendelssohn and others). In 1845 he published the Military Music Album dedicated to the troops of the USA army.