Brandenburg Concertos me with the command to send Your Highness some pieces of my Composition: I have in accordance with Your Highness's most gracious orders taken the liberty of rendering my most humble duty to Your Royal Highness with the present Concertos, which I have adapted to several instruments; begging Your Highness most humbly not to judge their imperfection with the rigor of that discriminating and sensitive taste, which everyone knows Him to have for musical works, but rather to take into benign Consideration the profound respect and the most humble obedience which I thus attempt to show Him. Bach's reference to
2004 Brandenburg state election 2004 Brandenburg state election The Brandenburg state election, 2004, was conducted on 19 September 2004, to elect members to the Landtag of Brandenburg, the state legislature of Brandenburg. Before Brandenburg, the SPD had lost many state elections, what was connected to Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010 policy, which was a reaction to the problems of constantly high unemployment in Germany. The establishing of a lower welfare payment (called "Hartz IV" after an expert who had invented it) for people unemployed for more than a year had driven many voters to the left Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) party in the east,