The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach ’ s Praeambulum 1 C-Major ( BWV 924 ) from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach though Sting gave little comment on this adaptation.

Schulze often takes German events as a starting point for his compositions, a notable example being on his 1978 album " X " ( the title signifying it was his tenth album ), subtitled " Six Musical Biographies ", a reference to such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Others were passed on through his only known Berlin pupil, Sarah Itzig Levy, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin and great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn ; it was she who gave Mendelssohn the manuscript of the St. Matthew Passion, which she had received from Friedemann.

The performance material Bach submitted to Augustus on July 27, 1733 was written on Dresden-made paper, in the hand of Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena, sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and a Dresden copyist.

Die Elite der deutschen Presse nach 1945 ( The gentlemen journalists: the elite of the German press after 1945 ) by Lutz Hachmeister and Friedemann Siering, ( Beck, Munich, 2002 ).

He tied for first (+ 5 = 1 − 2 ) with Gunnar Friedemann in the tournament, then defeated him (+ 2 = 0 − 1 ) in the playoff match.

* July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer ( b. 1710 )

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ( 22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784 ), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer.

* July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer ( b. 1710 )

* Wilhelm Friedemann ( 22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784 ).

In 1750 the church authorities reprimanded Friedemann for overstaying a leave of absence ( he was in Leipzig settling his father's estate ).

It is known that Friedemann sold some of his father's collection to raise cash to pay debts ( including a large sale in 1759 to Johann Georg Nacke ).

Friedemann himself may have been one of the models for Diderot's philosophical dialogue Rameau's Nephew ( Le Neveu de Rameau ).

* Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig ( 1991 ).

* Bedurftig, Friedemann, and Christian Zenter ( 1985 ).

* Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig ( 1991 ).

West Berlin's Mayor Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his city and won votes by it.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

Behind the long table set up on the steps of the Rathaus Schöneberg were US and German dignitaries, including Dean Rusk ( Kennedy's Secretary of State ), Lucius D. Clay ( the US administrator of Germany ), Konrad Adenauer ( the German chancellor ), Willy Brandt, and Otto Bach ( President of the German House of Representatives ).

** During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Struensee created himself and Brandt counts on 30 November that year.

The sentences were carried out on the 28 April 1772 with Brandt being executed first.

Written in German on a drawing the king made in 1775, three years after Struensee ’ s execution, was the following: " Ich hätte gern beide gerettet " (" I would have liked to have saved them both "), referring to Struensee and Brandt.

Karl Brandt married Anni Rehborn ( born 1904 ), a champion swimmer, on March 17, 1934.

Willy Brandt lectured in Sweden on 1 December 1940 at Bommersvik college about problems experienced by the social democrats in Nazi Germany and the occupied countries at the start of World War II.

Brandt negotiated a peace treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland, and agreements on the boundaries between the two countries, signifying the official and long-delayed end of World War II.

In his first speech before the Bundestag as the Chancellor, Brandt set forth his political course of reforms ending the speech with his famous words, " Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen " ( literally: " We want to take a chance on more Democracy ", or more figuratively, " Let's dare more democracy ").

A number of liberal social reforms were instituted whilst the welfare state was significantly expanded ( with total public spending on social programs nearly doubling between 1969 and 1975 ), with health, housing, and social welfare legislation bringing about welcome improvements, and by the end of the Brandt Chancellorship West Germany had one of the most advanced systems of welfare in the world.

To counter any notions about being sympathetic to Communism or soft on left-wing extremists, Brandt implemented tough legislation that barred " radicals " from public service (" Radikalenerlass ").

Guillaume was arrested on 24 April 1974, and many blamed Brandt for having a communist spy in his inner circle.

Thus disgraced, Brandt resigned from his position as the Chancellor on 6 May 1974.

There was also the economic fallout on West Germany of the 1973 oil crisis, which almost seems to have been enough stress to finish off Brandt as the Chancellor.

As Brandt himself later said, " I was exhausted, for reasons which had nothing to do with the process Guillaume espionage scandal going on at the time.

However, the Austrian Prime Minister, Bruno Kreisky, argued on behalf of Brandt: " It is a question of whether it is better to be pure or to have greater numbers ".

Brandt secured the release of a large number of them, and on November 9, 1990, his airplane landed with 174 freed hostages on board at the Frankfurt Airport.

Willy Brandt died of colon cancer at his home in Unkel, a town on the Rhine River, on 8 October 1992, and was given a state funeral.

German artist Johannes Heisig painted several portraits of Brandt of which one was unveiled as part of an honoring event at German Historical Institute Washington, DC on March 18, 2003.

Rut Hansen Brandt outlived Willy Brandt but died on 28 July 2006 in Berlin.

* Bill Brandt: A Retrospective ( 2002 )

Force dynamics plays an important role in several recent accounts of modal verbs in various languages ( including Brandt 1992, Achard 1996, Boye 2001, and Vandenberghe 2002 ).

lang in 1985, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider in 1989, The Arrogant Worms in 2002, Corb Lund in 2005, Paul Brandt in 2006, Video Games Live in 2007, Nikki Yanofsky in 2008, reunion concerts with Procol Harum in 1992 and 2010, Ben Folds in 2012, and Ian Tyson on the 100th anniversary of the Province of Alberta on September 1, 2005.

* 2002 Berlin, Willy Brandt Haus, Willy Brandt

* 2002 Berlin, Galerie Brusberg / Willy Brandt Haus, The Sixties

* The Passion of Martin Fissel Brandt by Christian Gailly ( 2002 )