(Choral music) The two European leaders listened to a French army choir sang the Marseillaise and then the German anthem, marking a French-German friendship that grew from the ashes of the two world wars.
VOA: standard.2009.11.11
The remix version, concoted by a hitherto little-known Berlin composer called Bardo Henning, is a 15-minute pot-pourri which mingles the melody of the current national anthem (by Joseph Haydn) with that of the old East German one (by Hanns Eisler).