[Publius]

Oh dear.

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I hope she recovers without further incident.

[Publius]

WHEN 4 IS A PRIME NUMBER

HAYDN: QUARTET IN C, OP. 76/3, POCO ADAGIO CANTABILE

When Austria went to war with Napoleon’s France, it needed an anthem equivalent to “Le Marseillaise.” Haydn stepped up to the plate with “God Protect Francis the Emperor,” which was sung “spontaneously” by the crowd at a concert attended by Kaiser Franz. Of course, Haydn had distributed sheet music to the crowd in advance.

Haydn knew when he had a great tune on his hands, so he wrote a set of variations on it in G Major in a quartet, which has come to be known as the “Emperor Quartet.”

After Haydn died, the Lutherans appropriated the tune for one of their hymns, and Bismarck appropriated it for a united Germany after the Franco-Prussian War under the title “Deutschland über alles.” The über was intended to mean that a united Germany was all-important to its citizens. But under Hitler, that über took on a more sinister meaning: Germany was to conquer Europe. It still remains the national anthem of Germany.

Haydn: Quartet in C, Op. 76/3, second movement

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