{"id":6748,"date":"2020-09-23T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:00:40","slug":"the-national-anthem-of-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-national-anthem-of-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Anthem of the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, I went to the Liberation Concert in Margraten, Limburg. This concert takes place each year in the fall at the Netherlands American Cemetery to remember all those whose fought during World War II. You can read more about this concert in a previous post I wrote<\/a>. At the beginning of the concert, philharmonie zuidnederland, the regional orchestra, played both the American and the Dutch national anthems. This moment left me curious as to what exactly is sung during the Dutch anthem and the history behind it.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken by Gabor Lonyai found on Flickr.com with license CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

Het eerste volkslied<\/h3>\n

The first national anthem or\u00a0volkslied<\/em> was\u00a0‘Wien Ne\u00earlands Bloed.’\u00a0<\/em>After the fall of Napoleon at the beginning of the 19th century, the Dutch realized they needed an anthem and the poet Hendrik Tollens won the competition. In 1898 with Queen Wilhelmina’s crowning, the song was adapted from ‘king’ to ‘queen.’ You can follow along to\u00a0Wien Ne\u00earlands Bloed’ <\/em>in the video below.<\/p>\n