Rota (poem)

Rota (poem)

"Rota" ("The Oath") is an early 20th-century Polish poem and anthem, once proposed to be the Polish national anthem.

History

"Rota"'s words were written in 1908 by Maria Konopnicka. The music was composed two years later by Feliks Nowowiejski.

Konopnicka's poem came into being as a protest against the German Empire's oppression and suppression of Polish culture in German-occupied western Poland — lands that from the late 18th century after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to 1918 were under Prussian — and later, German — rule.

"Rota" was first sung publicly during a patriotic demonstration in Kraków on July 15, 1910, itself held to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald. The anthem quickly became popular throughout partitioned Poland.

Until 1918 "Rota" served as an anthem of the Polish Scouting movement. After the nation regained independence in 1918, "Rota" in 1927 found itself under consideration for a time as a possible Polish national anthem.

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Rota

ee also

* Oaths of the Polish Army
* Germanisation
* Września
* Kulturkampf
* Drzymała's wagon
* Anti-Polonism

External links

* [http://www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/repertoi/rota.rm "Rota" in Real Audio format]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=MqYaDw0egqQ "Rota" vocal from You Tube]


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