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Bolívar's Triumphal March

The composer of this march, Thomas Simpson Cooke, was an Irish instrumentalist and singer. The performer on this recording (the first known) is Jonathan Summers, the British Library Sound Archive Classical Music Curator, playing a Yamaha electric piano.

Listen to Bolívar's Triumphal March
Windows Media audio file (2.16MB)

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Image: Cover “Triumphal March for the Piano Forte” [BL h.324.(11.)]	Image: Music score [BL h.324.(11.)]
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Enlarged image	Source: Thomas Simpson Cooke, Bolívar's Triumphal March for the Piano Forte, London, 1819.

Image: Music score [BL h.324.(11.)]