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| quote: | Originally posted by stren
still its the same melody, also the longest anthem in the world i hear |
Oh, I thought they had changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union  As for being the longest one, the shortest one and whatnot, here's what I found on the net 
(Looks reliable, as I know the hymn of Qatar is indeed strangely short - and happy, for example)
| quote: | Facts About National Anthems
'God Save The King' was played non-stop 16 or 17 times by a German military band on the platform of Rathenau railway station, Brandenburg, Germany on the morning of February 9 1909.
The reason was that King Edward VII was struggling inside the train with the uniform of a German Field-Marshall before he could emerge!
The music blared at a soccer match in Athens between a Chinese and a Greek side, and the crowd rose and stood in respectful silence. They assumed it was the Chinese National Anthem. The Chinese players also stood to attention, thinking it was the Greek National Anthem.
Then a voice sang out: "IT WAS A TOOTHPASTE COMMERCIAL!"
Oldest National Anthems:
JAPAN - oldest words - dating from the 9th Century
NETHERLANDS - oldest music - melody known before 1572
Shortest National Anthem:
QATAR - duration: 32 seconds
Longest National Anthems:
GREECE - lyrics - has a total of 158 verses!
URUGUAY - music - duration: 5 minutes
The only nation without a National Anthem of her own:
CYPRUS - uses the National Anthem of Greece
Nations that share the same tune for their National Anthem:
ESTONIA - FINLAND
LIECHTENSTEIN - UNITED KINGDOM
POLAND - Former YUGOSLAVIA (The music of the two National Anthems is slightly different)
TANZANIA - ZAMBIA (The two National Anthems have the same origin, but there are slight differences)
Oldest confirmed living composer:
Aku Tongmi (born 1913) - BHUTAN
Oldest confirmed living author:
Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (born 1913) - RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Classic composers of National Anthems:
AUSTRIA - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (disputed)
BANGLADESH - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
GERMANY - Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
INDIA - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
NORWAY - Rikard Nordraak (1842-1866)
SINGAPORE - Zubir Said (1907-1987)
VATICAN CITY STATE - Charles-François Gounod (1818-1893) |
Is that true, about the Polish and Yugoslavian anthem being similar?
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never heard about it, nor have i heard the Yugoslavian anthem
