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Re: Jewish Music Definition

> I recently found a choral setting of a Hebrew text (don't appear to have
> written down what it was) to the tune of Deutschland uber alles - it was
> part of a piece, Gebet fuer den Landsherrn, written by Yossele Rosenblatt
> for the 80th birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
> 
> Abbi

The melody was written by Haydn ("Kaiserquartett", op. 84, I believe). It
served as the so-called "Kaiserlied" in Austria before it became the German
national anthem.

C

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