Haydn and the Habsburgs

Tim Blanning argues that the "subject and servant of Europe’s most cosmopolitan empire... played an important role in the emergence of German cultural nationalism during the 18th and 19th centuries" — Joseph Haydn and the German Nation.

Among the many things of which we are reminded is that "the most multinational, multicultural, multilingual and generally diverse great power that Europe had ever seen" had "two great enemies: the Protestants and the Turks."