This most popular of all English national airs was first heard in London in 1745 and achieved instant popularity. The song was included in a masque, Alfred, co-written by Thomson and David Mallet and first performed at Cliveden, country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, to celebrate the accession of George I and the birthday of the Princess Augusta. The featured image (detail) is a portrait of George III of the United Kingdom (1762) by Allan Ramsay, and is in the public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.Rule Britannia is a song, originating from the poem Rule Britannia by James Thomson, and put to music by Thomas Arne in 1740. Eliot’s call to “redeem the time, redeem the dream.” The Imaginative Conservative offers to our families, our communities, and the Republic, a conservatism of hope, grace, charity, gratitude, and prayer. We hope that The Imaginative Conservative answers T.S.
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Pianist Angela Hewitt remarks:Ĭoncerning the 7 Variations on ‘God save the King’, WoO78, Beethoven made the comment that he wanted to ‘show the English what a blessing they have’ with that tune…. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations on “God save the King” and Variations on “Rule Britannia” for piano were published in 1803.
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