National anthems @RISM

Monday, June 16, 2014

How many national anthems do you know?

The songs of 32 countries are resounding at the World Cup at the moment.

The RISM online catalog offers numerous national anthems.

The majority of the over 700 sources are recorded anonymously. Four of them are digitally available. The series A/I Individual prints before 1800 shows a further 300 printed editions of national anthems.

Probalby the oldest one is the Dutch national anthem Willem (Wilhelmus Van Nassouwe) and dates from the years 1568 to 1572. It has functioned as a state song since 1932 for the Netherlands.

Image: Oldest publication of Dutch national anthem Wilhelmus with tune, in Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck by Adriaen Valerius (1570c - 1625), Haarlem 1626 [RISM A/I: V 147, see also RISM B/I: 162614; copy from Gent, Rijksuniversiteit (B-Gu)]

Share Tweet Email

Category: New at RISM


Browse the news archive by category below or use the search box above.

Categories

Top posts

- Joseph Bologne’s “L’Amant Anonyme”
- The Public Domain in 2023
- Scott Joplin and the St. Louis World’s Fair
- The Vienna State Opera in 1955
- Elizaveta, Elisabeth, and Elizabeth

Featured posts

- A Word about RISM
- Chopin Heritage in Open Access
- Sarah Levy
- Discovering Vivaldi Sources
- Finding Unica in RISM

Send us your news

Share your news with RISM and reach an international community of scholars, musicians, librarians, and archivists. Find out more here.

Copyright

All news posts are by RISM Editorial Center staff unless otherwise noted. Reuse of RISM’s own texts is permitted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. In all other cases, please contact the individual author.

CC_license