Editing Julius Mosen (section)

== Artistic work ==
His best-known poem is the text of the "[[Zu Mantua in Banden|Andreas-Hofer-Lied]]" ("Zu Mantua in Banden"), the present anthem of the [[Austria]]n ''Bundesland'' of the [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]]. [[Robert Schumann]] wrote a [[lied]] using as lyrics his poem 'Der Nussbaum' (the walnut tree). German composer [[Georgina Schubert]] used his text for her lieder “Der traumende See.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Georgine Schubert Song Texts {{!}} LiederNet |url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=24040 |access-date=2023-01-30 |website=www.lieder.net}}</ref>

There are three principal themes in Mosen's life and work: love of the home country, the battle for freedom, and the now-destroyed German-Jewish symbiosis.
 
In ''Erinnerungen'' ("Memories"), he writes of the "dependency on the soil of home, the Vogtland" that draws and holds the gaze "as though yonder, far back in the distance beneath the sap-dripping pines, there where the mountains rise up like terraces in dark blue, some secret were hidden that lures us to it and that would gladly reveal itself to us".<ref>"''Anhänglichkeit an die heimatliche Erde des Vogtlandes''"... "''als müsste dort weit hinten in der Ferne unter den harztropfenden Tannen, dort wo die Berge terrassenartig in dunkler Bläue emporsteigen, irgendein Geheimnis verborgen sein, das uns an sich lockt und sich uns gern enthüllen möchte."''</ref> The Vogtländer for him are the "Saxon Tyrolese, only pleasanter, livelier, more persistent in the pursuit of their goal, but just as sober, if also rougher."<ref>"''sächsischen Tyroler, nur genügsamer, nur regsamer, nur hartnäckiger in Verfolgung ihres Zieles, doch ebenso bieder, wenn auch derber.''"</ref>