Deutschlandlied coins. The music is the hymn "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser", written in 1797 by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn as an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of "" as a new text for that music, counterposing the national unification of Germany to the eulogy of a monarch, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time. Along with the flag of Germany, which first appeared in its essentially "modern" form in 1778; it
National Anthem of the Sakha Republic prison camp after his arrest. The composer of the song, Adam Skryabin, went abroad to evade the persecution and was given trial "in absentia". After a long time, the song was allowed by the Soviet government to be performed publically. The first public performance of this song was in the Victory Day celebration in the Yakut ASSR on 1945, from a gramophone record. The song was proposed to became the anthem of the Sakha Republic in 1990. National Anthem of the Sakha Republic The State Anthem of the Sakha Republic (; ) or National Anthem of Yakutia is the regional