Publisher Desc.  Tchaikovsky composed this piece as a piano work and submitted it to the bandmaster of the 98th Yurevsky Infantry Regiment (In which Tchaikovsky's nephew was enlisted). Tchaikovsky left it to the bandmaster to do the bandstration which varied rhythmically in some places from Tchaikovsky's original. This arrangement for full band is mainly taken from Tchaikovsky's original piano version except for the first three notes in the trumpet which use the bandmaster's rhythm.