Re: Deutchland Uber Alles

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

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> 
> Unless my recollection is wrong, Salomon Sulzer, the first great Cantor of
> international repute has a setting of Deutchland Uber Ales, with different
> words, of course, for the birthday of some great person in one of his
> volumes of compositions.  I think it is scored for harp and other
> instruments as well as full choir.  It must have been a German national
> treasure before the fascists put those words in. Imagine the book Shir Zsion
> with that tune in it.
> jonathan gordon
> 
Haydn uses it in one of his string quartets.  I'm not sure that's its first 
appearance.



Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
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Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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