Note 17 — THE STANDARD CANTATAS.

A German national song, written by Heinrich Harries, a Holstein clergyman, for the birthday of Christian VII. of Denmark. It was originally in eight stanzas, but was reduced to five and otherwise slightly modified for Prussian use by B. G. Schumacher, and in this form appeared as a “Berliner Volkslied” in the Spenersche Zeitung of Dec. 17, 1793.—Grove’s Dictionary.