Henry Fillmore
03 December 1881 - 07 December 1956
USA
As a boy he played piano, violin, guitar and flute. When he wanted to learn to play the slide trombone his father refused, because he viewed the trombone as a sinful instrument. His father was a partner in the Fillmore Brothers, a music publishing company specialising in religious music.
In 1901 he entered the Cincinatti Conservatory of Music studying the trombone under Charles Kohlma. Afterward he traveled around the USA as circus bandmaster. Between 1921 and 1926 he conducted the Syria Temple Shrine Band until he formed his own professional band in 1927. He retired from the band in 1938 and moved to Miami where he began to assist the University of Miami band.
He died in Miami in 1956. In his will he gave all future royalties to the University of Miami Band.
He composed 256 marches and made 774 arrangements of other works. In addition to his real name Henry Fillmore (790) he used several pseudonyms: Harold Bennett (65), Al Hayes (149), Wil Huff (8), Gus Beans (8), Ray Hill (3), Harry Hartley (12) and Henrietta Moore (1).
Marches composed by Henry Fillmore:
| Lassus Trombone | |||
| Rolling Thunder | |||
| The Klaxon | |||
| Boss Trombone | |||
| Circus Bee | |||
| Americans We | |||
| His Honor | |||
| The Crosley March | |||
| Footlifter | |||
| His Excellency | |||
| Noble Men | |||
| Men of Ohio | |||
| Military Escort | |||
| Higham | |||
| Presidents March | |||
| King Karl King | |||
| Mt. Healthy |
