Concert march

Concert marches by composer#

This incomplete list consists mainly of marches identified by their composers as concert marches. Note that many marches originally written for other contexts, such as military marches, ceremonial marches, or works for marching band, have also been played as concert marches; often in adapted versions. This list doesn’t include adapted marches and is limited to marches specifically created as concert marches in their initial presentation. For this reason, many prominent march composers like Sousa only have a limited number of works listed here because they predominantly wrote their marches originally for other contexts. Other well known march composers may not be listed at all if they wrote only for military bands or marching bands and never specifically composed for the concert band or orchestra. This list also does not include marches which were originally written as part of a larger work which are often played in concert such as marches written within an opera or ballet or for use in a play. The list may also omit marches which functioned as concert marches but were not specifically labeled as concert marches by their creators unless reliable sources have identified them as concert marches. For this reason the list omits many early concert marches which were written in a time period before the term concert march became widely used.

Bibliography#