Austria official state song.

Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof Music'
is the state song of Austria?

Good choice if it is true.

Gary 'Gatsby' Nichols

"Gary Nichols" wrote in message
...
Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof
Music'
is the state song of Austria?

Good choice if it is true.

Gary 'Gatsby' Nichols


If by state song you mean the same thing as national anthem, then no it is
not. The national anthem of Austria is "Land der Berg," set to a melody once
thought to have been written by Mozart, though that is now disputed by most
musical scholars.

Ron

"Gary Nichols" staggered to the nearest keyboard
and wrote:

Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof Music'
is the state song of Austria?

Good choice if it is true.

A lovely song, but no. The national anthem is cleverly entitled
"Bundeshymne" which loosely translates as "Federal Anthem," based
around a melody attributed (some say erroneously) to Mozart.


--
hambu n hambu hodo

Gary Nichols wrote:
Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof
Music' is the state song of Austria?

No and 99% of the Austrians do not know that song could Edelweiß! "The sound
of Music" is an American Musical that is not known in Austria! Just
tourist-guides around Salzburg know that Musical!

E.g.:
Michael Moore was in Vienna last week and started to sing that song IIRC
before starting a speech and was surprised that nodoby in audience was
singing with him. Actually the people didn't know what he was singing!

lg Gernot

Sure, Austria has become the upteenth US State, just after Irak
And we hang the Bush Jr portrait at every front door (just under the star
and stripes and next to the made in China animated and singing Santa Claus )



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Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof
Music' is the state song of Austria?

Good choice if it is true.

Gary 'Gatsby' Nichols

Runge wrote:
Sure, Austria has become the upteenth US State,

No, you're wrong! :-)
Austria just got California as its tenth province after an Austrian had been
elected as governor there.

lg Gernot

"Gernot Egger" staggered to the nearest keyboard and
wrote:

Michael Moore was in Vienna last week and started to sing that song IIRC
before starting a speech and was surprised that nodoby in audience was
singing with him. Actually the people didn't know what he was singing!

Hardly surprising; Michael Moore is an idiot.

We seem to grow a lot of them around here.



--
hambu n hambu hodo

Charles Hawtrey wrote:
Hardly surprising; Michael Moore is an idiot.

I just used it to show that nobody knows "Sound of Music" in Austria.
I did not comment on MM!

lg Gernot

Gernot Egger wrote:

Michael Moore was in Vienna last week

Michael Moore was everywhere in Germany and Austria during the last
couple of weeks.

and started to sing that song IIRC
before starting a speech and was surprised that nodoby in audience was
singing with him. Actually the people didn't know what he was singing!

Not only from this appearance, it was a shock that the currently most
popular critic of the official and mainstream America doesn't make a
very intelligent impression either.

Jens

No, of course not. Is it likely that any country would sit around
waiting until the 1960s for a Broadway musical to provide their
national anthem (let alone one with all the political points to be
made that Austria had) ?

They have an innocuous tune I was told was by Mozart (who else?), but
apparently it isn't [but then, this is the country that tries to
persuade you Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler German g) and some
fairly anodyne words about mountains and streams and forests and such.
If you do a search on Google for "national anthem" and Austria, you
should be able to get both words and music. One such site is
http://david.national-anthems.net/at.htm
PJW



On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:52:26 -0800, "Gary Nichols"
wrote:

Is it true that "Eidelweiss' from Rodgers and Hammersteins 'Sound fof Music'
is the state song of Austria?

Good choice if it is true.

Gary 'Gatsby' Nichols