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The "Himnusz " [a] (IPA: ⓘ) is the national anthem of Hungary. [1]The lyrics were written by Ferenc Kölcsey, a nationally renowned poet, in 1823, and its currently official musical setting was composed by the romantic composer Ferenc Erkel in 1844, although other lesser known musical versions exist.
" Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" ("God Save Emperor Franz") is an anthem to the Austrian Emperor Francis II, set to music by Joseph Haydn. The anthem served as the national anthem of Austria-Hungary. The German lyrics were written by Lorenz Leopold Haschka (1749–1827). The anthem was translated and adapted into many of the languages that were ...
The hymn was revived in 1929 with completely new lyrics, known as "Sei gesegnet ohne Ende", which remained the national anthem of Austria until the Anschluss. The first stanza of the hymn's 1854 version was sung in 1989 during the funeral of Empress Zita of Austria [ 14 ] and again in 2011 during the funeral of her son Otto von Habsburg.
The Hungarian People's Republic [a] (HPR) [6] was the government of Hungary during the Cold War. It was a professed communist state, governed first by the Hungarian Working People's Party and after a revolution in 1956, the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Both governments were closely tied to the Soviet Union as part of the Eastern Bloc. [1]
The first widely known lyrics of this song is a Kuruc poem that was a lament complaining about the misfortune of the Magyars and the Habsburg oppression, and it called back Francis Rákóczi II, the leader of the Hungarian uprising between 1703 and 1711, to save his people.
De facto, it is regarded as "the second national anthem" of Hungary, beside the Himnusz, which is a constitutionally defined state symbol. The lyrics were written in 1836 by Mihály Vörösmarty and set to music in 1840 by Béni Egressy for the award of András Bartay, head of the National Theatre. It was first performed in the National Theatre ...
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Ferenc Kölcsey, author of the lyrics of the Hungarian national anthem. The oldest surviving Hungarian (and Uralic) poem, Old Hungarian Laments of Mary. In earliest times, the Hungarian language was written in a runic-like script (Hungarian: Rovásírás).