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Vaterlandslied. Vaterlandslied is the name of several patriotic German poems. The most famous one is "Ich bin ein deutsches Mädchen" written by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock in 1770 and dedicated to Johanna Elisabeth von Winthem.
Vaterlandslied (Arndt) The Vaterlandslied (Song of the Fatherland) is a patriotic poem written by Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1812. It is also known by its first line Der Gott, der Eisen wachsen ließ (The God who made iron grow). The song was written to denounce the fact that several German states fought on the side of Napoleon to the detriment of ...
History. In the text, Arndt asks the German question and answers it by demanding a Greater German nation-state comprising all German -speaking areas in Europe. The song was performed for the first time in Berlin in 1814. [1] As the original tune did not become popular, Gustav Reichardt wrote a new melody in 1825. [2]
Dedication. Hans Schläger. Published. 1932. ( 1932) : Regensburg. Vocal. TTBB choir. Das Lied vom deutschen Vaterland, WAB 78, is a patriotic song composed by Anton Bruckner in c. 1845 during his stay in St. Florian .
The " Festgesang ", also known as the " Gutenberg Cantata ", was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in the first half of 1840 for performance in Leipzig at the celebrations to mark the putative 400th anniversary of the invention of printing with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg. The full title is Festgesang zur Eröffnung der am ersten Tage der ...
Das fällt ein Blitz in unsre Brust, Zu heil’ger Flamme wird die Lust! Dem Vaterland! Dem Vaterland! Das Wort gibt Flügel dir, o Herz! Flieg auf, flieg auf, schau niederwärts. Die Wälder, Ströme, Tal und Höh’n: O deutsches Land, wie bist du schön! Und überall klingt Liederschall.
The work was Raff's first numbered symphony, though not the first symphony he had written. He composed a Grand Symphony in E minor, WoO. 18, in 1854, but only two of the work's original five movements survive. Raff entered the completed symphony in a competition organized in Vienna, sponsored by Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and judged by ...
Hanns Eisler, 1949. Adopted. 14 November 1949. 1973 (as instrumental) Relinquished. 3 October 1990. (1990-10-03) " Auferstanden aus Ruinen " (German: [ˈaʊf (ʔ)ɛʁˌʃtandn̩ ʔaʊs ʁuˈiːnən]; 'Risen from the Ruins') was the national anthem of the East Germany during its existence from 1949 to 1990.