STARKE, HERMANN

Hermann Starke has been considered a minor, unknown, “one-tune” composer for many years. Recent research has revealed, however, that Starke wrote at least 800 works, including a number of marches. He may have been born in the Frankfurt or Offenbach area of Germany around 1870, since he reportedly was a non-commissioned officer-musician with Infantry Regiment No. 168 at Offenbach around 1900. Details of his death are also uncertain, although many of his higher opus numbers (528-794)...