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Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy 325th birthday dear Johann Sebastian,
Happy birthday to you!

Hoch soll der leben, hoch soll der leben, hoch soll der leben … dreimal hoch!

(The birthday was yesterday, Sunday. A few of us actually sang it at a meeting I was at.)

Happy Birthday Bach! And well done for starting, and ending, one of the highest selling pop songs of the 21st century:

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

At 10:00 I started listening to Richter's Well-Tempered Clavier and Pictures at an exhibition (not simultaneously!)...Richter's birthday was saturday, and Mussorgsky's yesterday, so

Thank goodness that the MELODY of Happy Birthday is likely not still under copyright (if it ever was) otherwise there'd be "issues" with this recent IMSLP post:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Dedication_-_New- ... Francis%29

--Sixtus