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
State Anthem of the Chuvash Republic State Anthem of the Chuvash Republic The State Anthem of the Republic of Chuvashia (; ) is the national anthem of the Republic of Chuvashia, a federal subject of Russia. The lyrics were written by Ilya Tuktash and the music was composed by German Lebedev. It was officially adopted in 1997. An idea aroused in 1905 about creating a new universal anthem. At the time, poet Yakov Turkhan wrote poems to the melody of the State Anthem of the Russian Federation and he published them in the first issue of newspaper "Hypar" in January 1906. During the autumn of 1917,