The Cordova daily times., 1918-06-12
ANTHEMS WERE PLAC|AR|ZED BY
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Prussia has boasted often that Great even their national anthems to Ger man kultur, the one directly and the other at remove of one step. Capt. Perry Belmont, United States army, has not only punctured this claim but has clearly proved that the Teu- tonic sheer is based on fragrant case of plagiarism in the eighteenth cen- tury. He has submitted his findings to the British embassy at Washington.
 Capt. Belmont has the backing of many authorities to show that Lully the famous French composer of the time of Louis XIV. originated the music, that Madame de Brinon wrote the words and that Handel, the Ger man composer who has generally been credited with the authorship of the anthem, really appropriated it.
 Perhaps the most convincing link in the chain of evidence which Capt. Belmont has produced appears in the Memoirs of Madame de Crequey, which cover greater part of the eighteenth century, the period in which the tune was composed. The author speaks of the deep impression the anthem made upon her when in TIA she heard it sung in the chapel of that institu- tion. She further adds that if her grandson, to whom the memoirs are addressed, desires to obtain the words and music he may easily do so, as Handel, a German composer, during his visit to Paris obtained permission to copy both.
 Various authorities tell how Hande dedicated the composition to George, Elector of Hanover, who became king of England in 1714, and to whom the German composer was capel-meister in Hanover.
 If further proof of the authorship were needed it is to be found in the Souvenirs de la Marquise Crequey in the form of a statement signed by four nuns of Sain Cyr They fully confirm her assertions regarding the associations of both Lully and Handel with the anthem.
 The original words contained in the Crequey Memoirs are distinctly app1i cable to such a glorious" and "vic- torious" king as Louis XIV in whose honor they were written by Lully, bu not to King George the First, to whom they were dedicated by Handel Tran slated literally from French into the English they follow:
 Great God, Save the King!
 Great God, Avenge the King!
 Long live the King.
 Always the glorious,
 Louis victorious,
 Scatter his enemies
 And make them fall.
 GT6dt IOu, save Lue
 Great God, Avenge the King!
 Long live the King.
 Only casual reading of the words of the Handel version of God Save the King" is required to make obvious their source. They follow: God save our gracious king, Long live our noble king, God save the king! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, | Long to reign over us; God save the king. O Lord our God, arise!
 Scatter our enemies, And make them fall
 Confound their politics;
 Frustrate their knavish tricks; | On Thee our hopes we fix;
 God save us all!
 Thy choicest gifts in store
 On him be pleased to pour;
 Long may he reign;
 May he defend our laws,
 And ever give us cause
 To sing with heart and voice;
 God save the King!
 Some years after England accepted the tune as it's national anthem, Prus- sia and various German states also adopted it. My Country Iris of Thee" written by the Rev. s. s. Smith and undoubtedly derived from God Save the King" was sung at the Park Street Church in Boston on July 4, 1892.
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