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Święto Niepodległości - My, Pierwsza Brygada: Eugeniusz Mossakowski & Chór W. Lachmana, 1931

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Eugeniusz Mossakowski & Chór W. Lachmana i Orkiestra pod dyr. Bronisława Szulca – My, Pierwsza Brygada (We, the First Brigade) Marsz Legionów Polskich (March Of the Polish Legions, 1918) Syrena-Electro 1931 (Polish)

NOTE: Today, on the 11th of November, is a great anniversary in Poland: The Independence Day. It’s a day of the end of the 1st World War in 1918 and the day of regaining by Poland its independence, after 150 years of its partition between three neighbouring powers: Kaiser’s Prussia, Tzarist Russia and the Habsburg Empire. However, with the onset of the 1st World War and beginning of the tumbling of the political order in Europe, the Austrians - aware of the military power hidden within the Polish society -  allowed in August 1914 the formation of the independent military unit of Polish soldiers and officers, created inside the Austro-Hungarian Army. It was called the Pierwsza Brygada (The First Brigade) which, in the pass of political events, became the fundament for creating the Polish Legions during the 1st World War. The Legions took part in many battles against the forces of Imperial Russia, both in Galicia and in the Carpathian Mountains. In June 1916 the unit had approximately 25 000 soldiers and was a significant part of the anti-tzarist front, until the turn of political events which pushed the Legions under the Prussian directorship. Forced to fight under the Kaiser’s banners, Poles rejected such alliance and therefore, during the last year of the war, Polish Legions were interned in Szczypiorno by the Germans.  After the war the officers of the Polish Legions became the backbone of the Polish Army, in the independent Polish Republic.  


My, Pierwsza Brygada (We, the First Brigade) was a song of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions, led by Jozef Pilsudski. It is also known under the title “Legions are a soldier’s note”.
The melody is taken from the March of the Kielce Fire Department. Capt. Andrzej Brzuchal-Sikorski, who since 1905 was a Leader of the orchestra of Kielce Fire Department, and later – of the orchestra of the First Brigade of the Polish Legions of Józef Pilsudski - was the first performer and arranger of the song. “My Pierwsza Brygada” was regarded in the years after World War 1 almost the national anthem of Poland. In 2007, the Minister of National Defence decided, that “My Pierwsza Brygada” becomes a parade song of the Representative Corps of the Polish Army.

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Eugeniusz MOSSAKOWSKI – Polish baritone, one of the great Polish operatic singers of the 20th Century, soloist of the Grand Theatre (Teatr Wielki) in Warsaw and in his time, author of many excellent recordings for Parlophone, Odeon and Syrena-Electro.

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