It was written at a time when the composer found himself in a difficult financial situation (he was living in Warsaw and kept a flat in Kraków, where his ailing mother was living), as a result of which he willingly accepted various jobs, writing music for radio programmes and theatrical productions, today regarded as marginal. This is confirmed by a fragment of a letter to his mother: “I’m finally sending the March to Rudziński today – there’s nothing like a financial incentive” (25–26 April 1947). Relatively simple in its structure (ABA¹) and with regard to the means used, March is marked by Mycielski’s typical sharpness of harmonic note combinations.