The Voice of Nations - European National Anthems and Their Authors

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Acknowledgments
The Setting
Ancien Regime Anthems
The Netherlands: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe--Philip Marnix van St. Aldegonde?
The United Kingdom: God Save the King (Queen)--Author unknown
Denmark: Kong Christian--Johannes Ewald and Der er et yndigt land--Adam G. Oehlenschläger
Resistance Anthems
France: La Marseillaise--Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Poland: Dabrowski Mazurka--Jozef Wybicki
Portugal: A Portuguesa--Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Ireland: Amhran na/bh Fiann--Peadar Kearney
Liberation Anthems
Hungary: Himnusz--Ferenc Kölcsey
Greece: Hymnos eis ten Eleutherian--Dionysios Solomos
Belgium: La Brabançonne--A. Dechet (Jenneval), C. Rogier, R. Herreman
Norway: Sang for Norway--Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Unification Anthems
Germany: Das Lied der Deutschen--August H. Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Italy: Inno di Mameli--Goffredo Mameli
Anthems of Contentment
Sweden: Du gamla, du fria--Richard Dybeck and The Hymn--Carl A.V. Strandberg
Luxembourg: Ons Hemeecht--Michel Lentz
Bibliographical Note

About the author

F. GUNTHER EYCK, Distinguished Adjunct Professor in the School of International Service at the American University, has specialized in modern European history and contemporary foreign policies of West European countries./e Professor Eyck's teaching experience spans half a century and has been augmented by 27 years of service with the U.S. Government. His books include The Benelux Countries: A Historical Survey (1959) and Loyal Rebels: The Tyrolean Uprising of 1809 (1986), and he has written numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century European history and current events in Western Europe.

Product details

• Authors: F. G. Eyck, F. Gunther Eyck
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1995
• EAN: 9780313293207
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29320-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Sheet music; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, TRAVEL / Pictorials, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Popular Music, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts, Brass band, military music & marches