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MOZART, SÜβMAYR, AND MUSICAL PROPOGANDA







        ing against the deleterious influences of France:       These people are fighting us now, and are

                                                                  winning!
            Woe! Woe! Woe!                                     They will soon have us in chains! Heaven help
            The enemy is rushing in on us like a raging           us! It is hopeless! (Figure 2 on page 35)
              torrent!
            Oh, diffi  cult, tragic times!                      In No. 5, the tenors and basses of the Chorus sup-
            Our enemies have held Europe hostage for        port the baritone soloist as “The People,” in vigorous
              almost two hundred years,                     interjections, declaring their commitment to “fi ght cou-
            Battling us with trinkets, loose morals, and now   rageously like no other people has ever fought.” (Figure
              with weapons;                                 3 on page 36)































































        34       CHORAL JOURNAL  April 2021                                                             Volume 61  Number 9
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