ossory
A straight-faced satirical anthem, sung dead-earnest over Austria's own stately melody. Across three ceremonial verses it needles the national self-image: a country mistaken for Australia and forever insisting it isn't Germany, the "Mozart" tune that probably isn't Mozart's, the gift for keeping every glory and quietly disowning every shame, postwar neutrality, and the daughters finally written into the anthem in 2012.
Land of Mountains, Land of Maybe
Style
A solemn central-European anthem hymn in slow 3/4, full symphonic strings, horns and organ under a mixed choir led by a warm female voice with a sincere, softly rolled Austrian accent.