[net.music.classical] Haydn and "Deutschland uber Alles"

jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (08/22/85)

Red face time.

I claimed in a recent article that the melody to this song was much
older than Haydn.

According to Donald J. Grout's "A History of Western Music", Haydn wrote
that song to be used as the Austrian national anthem. Subsequently he
used it as the theme in a theme-and-variations movement in a string
quartet, Op.76, no.3.

I doubt if he would have approved of its more recent use.

				apologetically,
				   Jeff Winslow