Eric Schissel wrote:

>Hrm- then there's also Raff's overture with the same theme, and the same
>title, but written in 1864 . . .  this was written to celebrate the 25th
>anniversary of the accession of the Duke of Nassau . . .  (I forget what
>name it went by in Nassau offhand.)

Could it have been the old Prussian "Heil dir im Siegerkranz"?

Some musicologists take it right back to England and attribute the first
use of the tune to John Bull in one of his harpsichord pieces, but that
may just be bull.

John Dalmas
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