Which composer born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia wrote an operate intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I?
La corona (Gluck) La corona ("The Crown") is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an "azione teatrale" in one act. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera was intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I on 4 October 1765 but the emperor died in August and it remained unperformed until the 20th century.
Triumphlied The Triumphlied (Op. 55) is a work for baritone solo, choir and orchestra by the German composer Johannes Brahms. Brahms wrote the work on the occasion of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War and dedicated it to emperor Wilhelm I. The text itself emanates from the Book of Revelation predicting the downfall of Babylon but is consciously reinterpreted into political terms. Due to its patriotic message bound to the zeitgeist of the Unification of Germany, the "Triumphlied" lost popularity after World War I, despite its musical quality. Today it is one of Brahms's rather unknown œuvres.