Musical Antecedents
Several musical antecedents have been cited for the melody:
- Mozart's Allegro maestoso du Piano Concerto No. 25
- the credo of the fourth mass of Holtzmann of Mursberg
- the Oratorio Esther by Jean Baptiste Lucien Grison
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