As an example, Clark points to Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, a mass that Haydn composed in 1775 for Vienna’s church of the Brothers Hospitallers, whose founder, St. John of God, was a ...

The anthem’s history Joseph Haydn composed the music to the German anthem. Photo by Getty Images The melody of the German national anthem was composed in 1796 by Joseph Haydn, who was Austrian.