Railroad Steam Engine Galop, c1870 (lithograph on paper)

sheet music cover for `Railroad Steam Engine Galop with two others for the piano forte: No.1. Railroad Steam Engine Galop. No.2 Ehestands Freuden Galop. No.3. Sirenen Galop. Composed and dedicated to the Misses Wildes of Thornhill, near Maidstone by Joseph Gung'l. Published only by R. Cocks & Co. 6. New Burlington Street, London, Music Sellers by Special Appointment to Her Majesty. On Stone by R.P.C. Robert Cocks & Co. Music publisher; Piano Forte Manufacturers & Music Sellers to the Queen; Music Publishers to Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon III.; founded in 1823 by Robert Cocks (1797-1887) and from 1868 in partnership with his son and grandson. Joseph Gung’l (1810–1889) was a Hungarian composer and conductor. After starting life as a schoolteacher, he became first oboist at Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th regiment of Austrian artillery. His first composition, a Hungarian march, written in 1836, attracted some notice, and in 1843 he was able to establish an orchestra in Berlin. In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd Infantry Regiment at Brünn and in 1873 he conducted with great success a series of promenade concerts at Covent Garden, London. Gung’l’s dances number over 300, and his music is characterized by the same easy flowing melodies and well-marked rhythm that distinguish the dances of Strauss, to whom alone he can be ranked second in this kind of composition.