Alberik Zwyssig.
Alberik Zwyssig (Alberich Zwyssig) (Bauen, November 17, 1808 - November 18, 1854), was a Swiss composer best known as the author of the Swiss national anthem, the Swiss Canticle. Biography
In 1841, the priest and composer from the canton of Uri, Alberik Zwyssig, was residing in the house of his brother (a beautiful patrician residence at the entrance to the city of Zug), when he received a patriotic text to which he had to compose the music, the musical editor was the journalist and composer Leonhard Widmer (1809-1867).
Zwyssig chose a melody composed by him, the "Diligam te Domine" he had composed a year earlier in 1835, on the occasion of the inauguration as a priest in the parish of the Wettingen convent.
Widmer's text was adapted as a church song. On the night of Monday, November 22, 1841, the day of St. Cecilia, in a room in the town of Sankt Carl, four citizens of Zug sang for the first time the Cantico Suizo in the presence of the composer. Two years later, on the occasion of the anniversary of Zug's entry into the Confederation (May 1, 1351 - May 1, 1843, the song was included in the booklet of the party with the original text.
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