Weary of all trumpeting

Weary of all trumpeting. Martin Franzmann* (1907-1976). This hymn was written to a melody composed in 1934 by the German composer Hugo Distler*. It was his setting of the war song (‘trutlied’) ‘Deutschland und Deutsch-Österreich’ (‘Germany and German Austria’) by the Nazi propagandist poet Hermann Harder (b. 1901) that anticipated and justified the annexation (‘Anschluss’) of Austria in 1938. The music, considered lost, was recalled and verified over three decades later by Distler’s student, Dutch composer Jan Bender*. A manuscript copy in Bender’s hand of the Distler tune with Distler’s harmonization and three strophes of the text ‘Deutschland und Deutsch-Österreich’ is in the Bender...