Facts About National Anthems

Bavaria · 2016-06-23T21:39:12+00:00

Word definition ANTHEMATOLOGY/ANTHEMATOLOGIST - the study and collection of information about anthems - the word was invented by David Kendall in Canada in 2003. 'God Save The King' was played non-stop 16 or 17 times by a German military band on the platform of Rathenau railway station, Brandenburg, Germany on the morning of February 9 1909. The reason was that King Edward VII was struggling inside the train with the uniform of a German Field-Marshall before he could emerge! The music blared at a soccer match in Athens between a Chinese and a Greek side, and the crowd rose and stood in respectful silence. They assumed it was the Chinese National Anthem. The Chinese players also stood to attention, thinking it was the Greek National Anthem. Then a voice sang out: "IT WAS A TOOTHPASTE COMMERCIAL!" Spain demanded an apology after the wrong Spanish National Anthem was played before a Davis Cup Tennis Match in Australia in 2003. The pre-Civil War Republican National Anthem was played for the Spanish team! Oldest National Anthems: JAPAN - oldest words - dating from the 9th Century THE NETHERLANDS - oldest music - melody known before 1572 Shortest National Anthem: UGANDA - 8 bars of music Longest National Anthems: GREECE - lyrics - has a total of 158 verses! URUGUAY - music - 105 bars of music Shortest lived National Anthem: SOMALILAND - 5 days only - June 26 1960 to July 01 1960 The only nation without a National Anthem of her own: CYPRUS - uses the National Anthem of Greece and the National Anthem of Turkey Nations that share the same tune for their National Anthem: ESTONIA - FINLAND LIECHTENSTEIN - UNITED KINGDOM POLAND - Former YUGOSLAVIA (The music of the two National Anthems are slightly different) TANZANIA - ZAMBIA (The two National Anthems have the same origin, but there are slight differences) Oldest confirmed living composer of a National Anthem: Xiao He (born 1918) - GUINEA-BISSAU Oldest confirmed living author of a National Anthem: Mathieu Ekra (born 1917) - IVORY COAST Oldest State Song of the United States of America: SOUTH CAROLINA - adopted February 11 1911 Oldest confirmed living composer of a State Song of the United States America: Joseph Rocco Mascari (born 1922) - NEW JERSEY Oldest confirmed living author of a State Song of the United States of America: Joseph Rocco Mascari (born 1922) - NEW JERSEY Classic composers of National Anthems: AUSTRIA Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - but this is disputed BANGLADESH Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) GERMANY Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) INDIA Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) NORWAY Rikard Nordraak (1842-1866) SINGAPORE Zubir Said (1907-1987) VATICAN CITY STATE Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) Statesmen who wrote the words for their own National Anthem: BELGIUM Charles Latour Rogier (1800-1885) Prime Minister of Belgium (1832-1834) (1847-1852)(1857-1868) COLOMBIA Rafael Nuñez (1825-1894) President of Colombia (1880-1882) (1884-1888) (1892-1894) ECUADOR Juan León Mera (1832-1894) President of Senate of Ecuador EL SALVADOR Juan José Cañas (1826-1918) Minister of Foreign Affairs IVORY COAST Mathieu Ekra (b.1917) and Joachim Bony (b.1927) Minister of Information Minister of Education JAMAICA Robert Charles Lightbourne (1909-1995) Minister of Trade and Industry (1962-1972) JORDAN Abdul-Mone'm al-Rifai' (1917-1985) Prime Minister of Jordan (1969) & (1970) LIBERIA Daniel Bashiel Warner (1815-1880) President of Liberia (1864-1868) MALAYSIA Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903-1990) Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-1970) SÉNÉGAL Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) President of Sénégal (1960-1980) TAIWAN Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) President of China (1923-1925) Foreign composers who wrote the music for a National Anthem: ALBANIA Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883) Romanian ARMENIA Barsegh Kanachyan (1885-1967) Turkish BANGLADESH Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian BOLIVIA Leopoldo Benedetto Vincenti (1815-1914) Italian CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Herbert Pepper (1912-2001) French CHILE Ramón Carnicer (1789-1855) Spanish COLOMBIA Oreste Sindici (1837-1904) Italian CYPRUS Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795-1873) Greek ECUADOR Antonio Neumane (1818-1871) German EL SALVADOR Juan Aberle (1846-1930) German ESTONIA Friedrich Pacius (1809-1891) Finnish GERMANY Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Austrian GUINEA-BISSAU Xiao He (b.1918) Chinese HONDURAS Carlos Hartling (1869-1920) German IRAQ Mohammad Salim Flayfel (1899-1986) and Ahmad Salim Flayfel (1906-1991) Lebanese Lebanese MALAYSIA Pierre Jean de Beranger (1780-1857) French THE MALDIVES Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amaradeva (b.1927) Sri Lankan MAURITANIA Tolia Nikiprowetzky (1916-1997) Polish MEXICO Jaime Nuno (1824-1908) Spanish NAURU Laurence Henry Hicks (1912-1997) Australian NEPAL Amber Gurung (dates unknown) Indian NEW ZEALAND John Joseph Woods (1849-1934) Australian NICARAGUA Luis Abraham Delgadillo (1887-1961) Italian PALESTINE Ali Ismael (1922-1974) Egyptian PANAMA Santos Jorgea (1870-1941) Spanish PAPUA NEW GUINEA Thomas Shacklady (1917-2006) British PORTUGAL Alfredo Keil (1850-1907) German SAN MARINO Federico Consolo (1841-1906) Italian SAUDI ARABIA Abdul Rahman Al-Khateeb (b.1923) Egyptian SÉNÉGAL Herbert Pepper (1912-2001) French SERBIA Davorin Jenko (1835-1914) Slovenian SOLOMON ISLANDS Panapasa Balekana (1929-2009) Fijian SOMALIA Giuseppe Blanc (1886-1969) Italian SWAZILAND David Kenneth Rycroft (1924-1997) British SYRIA Mohammad Salim Flayfel (1899-1986) and Ahmad Salim Flayfel (1906-1991) Lebanese Lebanese TAJIKISTAN Suleiman Yudakov (1916-1990) Uzbek TANZANIA Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (1860-1904) South African TONGA Karl Gustavus Schmitt (1834-1900) German TUNISIA Mohamad Abdel Wahab (1915-1991) Egyptian UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Mohamad Abdel Wahab (1915-1991) Egyptian UNITED STATES OF AMERICA John Stafford Smith (c.1750-1836) British URUGUAY Francisco José Debali (1791-1859) Hungarian VATICAN CITY STATE Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) French ZAMBIA Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (1860-1904) South African national-anthems.org - facts

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