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| | HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN, August Heinrich., Unpolitische Lieder. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Hoffmann (1784-1874), self-ennobled 'von Fallersleben', was first librarian (1823) and then professor of German language and literature (1830) at the University of Breslau, before his dismissal in 1842 due to the politically sensitive content of the supposedly Unpolitischen Lieder, a collection of poems highlighting rottenness in contemporary German state and society. |
 | | Perhaps Hoffmann's best known poem is Lied der Deutschen (sometimes referred to by its opening line, 'Deutschland, Deutschland über alles'), the final verse of which still serves as Germany's national anthem, with its tune taken from Haydn's Kaiserquartett. |
 | | Written at the same time as the present work, it was first printed separately, with the music, in 1841, and was then included in Hoffmann's Deutsche Lieder aus der Schweiz (Zurich & Winterthur, 1842). |
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