Show THE YACHT AM RHEIX Of the martial songs more particularly particu-larly connected with the various periods per-iods of storm and stress in Germany one of the most celebrated is that of the Rhine composed by Becker and answered b Alfred de Musset in other well known verses The Wacht am Rhein by Max Schneckenburger was composed about the same period a the Rhine song but attained its widest popularity during the war of 1870 Unlike Un-like Beckers song It cannot boast v having been set to music by seventy composers The patriotic song of Deutschland Deutschland uber Ales was the work of the popular writer poet philologist and historian August Hoffman who wa born at Fallersleben In the year 1798 For a time we find Mm acting as librarian and later as professor at the University of Breslau but the liberal tendency of some of his writings caused caus-ed him in 1838 to be deprived of his professorial chair For many years he was librarian to the Duke of Ratibor and died In this sheltered post in 1874 The German national anthem Hell Dir im Siegerkranz was written orig inally for the birthday cf Christian VII king of Denmark by a Holstein clergyman The words were written to the air of God Save the King In 1790 and a few years later were modified modi-fied for Prussian use Chambers Journal |