Most beautiful rendition of Deutschlandlied the German National Anthem Tchaikovsky Orchestration

The tune of the German national anthem was composed in 1796 by Austrian Joseph Haydn and was first performed in 1797 for the birthday of Holy Roman emperor Francis II; it was called “Kaiserhymne” (“Emperor’s Hymn”). Its first lines were “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!” (“God preserve Francis the Emperor, Our good Emperor Francis!”). Haydn further developed the theme in his string quartet known as the Emperor Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3. Although the lyrics changed with the names of the emperors, the tune remained in official use until Austria-Hungary collapsed in 1918.

Decades before that happened, however, the tune was adopted by nationalist poet and university professor August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben for use with a new set of lyrics that he wrote in August 1841, urging unity for the crazy quilt of German polities.

It was retained as the anthem of Nazi Germany, along with the party anthem, the Horst Wessel Song. However, during the Nazi era those lyrics took on unfortunate connotations. What was originally intended in 1848 as a call to place the concept of a unified nation above regional differences—with geographic borders marking the extent to which culturally German settlers had spread—became reinterpreted as a justification for German expansionism and misinterpreted by some as a claim to German world hegemony.

The song nevertheless remained a matter of controversy. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of the Berlin Wall, however, the reunification of Germany was effected in 1990, and in 1991 the third verse of the “Deutschlandlied” was declared the national anthem of the restored country.

[RSA]

The only thing we heard on most Sunday afternoons 2000 - 2004, 2010-2021. (F1 fans know)

[tomriess]

🖤❤️💛 Sehr schöne Version des Deutschlandliedes 🇩🇪 👍

[Asianboy]

What a coincidence! I was the 300th like and the 300th sub too! LOL!!

[bobbwc]

I don't know if Tschaikowsky did the Austrians a favor with all that Prussian oomphta oomphta oomphta in there :D

[rykmat]

Gott ehralte Franz den Kaiser, Unsern guten Kaiser Franz! 😜

[_Bheta]

Auferstanden aus ruinen still the best german anthem for me.

[eldermcnamara]

Can you post The French anthem sounding as beautiful as this 💙

[joedarkmatter]

how about the one with lyrics : aerika, ...aerika, ...
(i used to listen to it long ago)

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