Experience
Important to Richard Fricsay were the variuos tasks but also the appreciation. Repeatedly he was honered by getting a medal of merit. Full of pride he wore these awards pinned on his uniform at public occasions. He was not only regarded as "the great charmer with women laying in front of his feet" but also had the reputation of "the most decorated Honved music conductor" of his
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1904 at the autumn manoeuvre he gave a concert with the Municipal Orchestra of Wsetin in Bistriz in front of emperor Franz Josef I. Very impressed by the performance the monarch honoured Richard Fricsay with a splendid brilliant needle. This award had an enormous importance in the eyes of the conductor and so he changed the pin into a ring. Thereby he achieved the possibility to wear the medal permanently, independent of opportunity and uniform.
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His son Ferenc altered the setting into a needle again.
Full of gratitude and pride to his father, he pinned the needle on his bow tie of the dress shirt when he got dressed for a concert.
During his whole life there existed no musical per-formance without wearing it.
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Many compositions were made by Richard sen. He wrote various marches for the army and fire brigades, also fantasies about the short songs. His famous marches with folk songs variations remained decades as most popular marches played by company bands as well as youth bands. In 1910 he got the order to compose the celebration march for the 50th anniversary of the infantry regiment, resulting in the "Alba Regia march". This became the defiling march of the k.u.k. Infantry Regiment no. 69 during the First World War.
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