"Under blågul fana" ( en, Beneath the Blue and Yellow Banner) is a well-known Swedish
march from the early 20th-century composed by
Viktor Widqvist Viktor Widkvist (1881–1952) was a Swedish military musician and composer.
Career
He was born Viktor Magnus Widkvist in Stockholm in the Jakob och Johannes parish on 27 December 1881. Viktor was the son of Johan Viktor Widkvist, a piano maker an ...
(1881–1952). Its date of composition is unknown, but the oldest known version (from the archive of the
Royal Swedish Navy Band
Royal Swedish Navy Band ( sv, Marinens musikkår), is one of three professional military bands in the Swedish Armed Forces. The band is stationed at Karlskrona, was formed in 1680 and is mainly active in the south part of the country with concert ...
in Stockholm) dates from 1916. The march became very popular during
World War II in Sweden and is de facto the national march of Sweden. It was adopted as the march of the
Swedish armed forces in 1999. The march is also quoted in Leroy Anderson's arrangement of
Seventy-Six Trombones.
References
External links
Militärmusiksamfundet
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Swedish military marches