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1812 Overture. The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [ 1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
file. help. "God Save the Tsar! " (Russian: Боже, Царя храни!, IPA:[ˈboʐɨtsɐˈrʲaxrɐˈnʲi]) was the national anthemof the Russian Empire. The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 1833. It was composed by violinistAlexei Lvov, with lyrics written by the court poetVasily Zhukovsky.
La Marseillaise. " La Marseillaise " [ a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [ b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine ").
Marche slave. The Marche slave, also Marche slav ( French pronunciation: [maʁʃ (ə) slav]) in B-flat minor, Op. 31, is an orchestral tone poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published in 1876. It was written to celebrate Russia's intervention in the Serbo-Ottoman War .
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell ), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
file. help. " Slav’sya! ", (Russian: Славься!, romanized: Slavʹsya!) is the name of the final song in the epilogue of Mikhail Glinka 's first opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) and now considered as one of Russia's greatest classical and patriotic anthems of the 19th century. The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky ...
The Prayer of Russians. "Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" "God Save the Tsar!" " The Prayer of Russians " (Russian: Молитва русских, romanized: Molitva russkikh, IPA: [mɐˈlʲitvə ˈruskʲɪx]) is a song that was used as the national anthem of Imperial Russia from 1816 to 1833. After defeating the First French Empire, Tsar ...
The " State Anthem of the Russian Federation " [ a ] is the national anthem of Russia. It uses the same melody as the " State Anthem of the Soviet Union ", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with Gabriel El-Registan on the original anthem. [ 3 ] From 1944, that earliest version replaced ...