Viktorin Hallmayer was an Austria

Austria

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n composer and band conductor, best known as the author of the Marcia Trionfale

Marcia Trionfale (Hallmayer)

The Marcia trionfale was the second anthem of the Pope and of the Vatican City State, replacing Noi vogliam Dio, Vergine Maria...

, the first anthem

Anthem

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 of the Catholic Pontificate

Pope

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 and of the Vatican City State

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Hallmayer was born in 1831 at Anthering bei Salzburg, and died in 1872. He composed the Marcia in 1857, when he was director of the band of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the Line (the Count Kinsky Regiment) stationed within the Papal States

Papal States

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