"Der Hohenfriedberger" also known as "Hohenfriedberger Marsch" or "Der Hohenfriedberger Marsch", is one of the most well known German military marches. It takes its name from the victory of the Prussians over the allied Austrians and Saxons on June 4, 1745 during the Second Silesian War at the Battle of Hohenfriedberg, near Striegau (now in south western Poland). It was possibly composed by Frederick the Great but that is doubted by most musicologists. It was probably derived from another Prussian melody "The Pappenheimer March which dates to the early 16th century. In 1845, in commemoration of the centennial of the battle, words were set to the tune. It appears in a multi-volume collection of military music used from 1685 to 1823 by Friedrich Deisenroth. There is little information available about these volumes. There are photocopies of some of the tunes in the Colonial Williamsburg Fife and Drum Library. "Hohenfriedberger Marsch" is one of those. It was printed in Moon's Musick of the Fifes and Drums, Vol 2: Slow Marches (1977)(as "Hohenfriedberger's Marsch").