1000 Anthems To Work On A Good End

The quartet '1000' started recomposing classical compositions in 2004. In 2015/16 the idea of developing a new repertoire based on national anthems broached for the first time. The fact that an anthem is a point of reference for a whole nation makes an interpretation of such a melody recognizable for everybody. If you take Mauricio Kagel's composition '10 Marches to Miss the Victory' for example, you can see how populist elements can be used for very subtle manipulation. Karlheinz Stockhausen called national anthems " the most popular music you can conceive of". The fact that many anthems sound alike is primarily rooted in historical reasons, but there are also many hymns that possess a very different character.