Fredericus Rex - “Fridericus Rex“ - English Subtitles

*Fredericus Rex is Latin for King Fredrick, in reference to Fredrick the Great *Pfennig and Heller are types of Prussian/German coins “Fredericus Rex“ is a Prussian march that was composed by the Prussian military musician Ferdinand Radeck in the mid-1860s . In the trio of the march, he used the melody which the composer Carl Loewe wrote in 1837; shortly before Willibald Alexis wrote ballad “Fridericus Rex“, during this period of Prussian expansionism, in which Frederick the Great received great veneratio