This is Donizetti's famous funeral march from his opera Dom Sebastian, which premiered in 1843.


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Composer, "Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst," was Susan McFarland Parkhurst, a friend of Stephen Foster's and the author of several Civil War songs. She began composing after her husband died in the war in 1864.]]>
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