Helgoland, WAB 71, is a secular, patriotic cantata for male choir and orchestra, composed by Anton Bruckner in 1893.

One year earlier, Bruckner had already composed another, shorter patriotic work, Der deutsche Gesang (WAB 63), that was premiered at the First German Academic Song Festival in Salzburg in June 1892.

[5] On the North Sea's most distant horizon Ships appear that resemble clouds; In billowy waves with tension on the sail The Romans approach the Saxons' isle.

And look, the wave, that was billowing Turns into froth-like foam, The winds arise and they bolt fiercely, Even the brightest sails are darkened!

The horrors of the ocean are relinquished, They burst the masts and the bows; The all-igniting arrows of lightning Strike them while thunder accompanies their flight.

Now, enemy, looter, you stay as a loot, Sunk to the ocean's depth, dashed to the sand, Your ships' wreckage floats towards the island!

The 317-bar long composition in G minor, scored for TTBB male choir and orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, contrabass tuba, timpani, cymbal and strings), is set as a three-part sonata form with coda.

The coda on the last verse "O Herrgott, dich preiset frei Helgoland!, with a cymbal crash near the end (bar 309),[2] is a hymn to the deity.

[4] Helgoland is seldom played presumably because of the text, a poem with German patriotic content, but also the high requirements, i.e., a symphonic orchestra and a professional men's choir.

[7]Fritz Oeser made an adaptation of the work for mixed choir and orchestra, and put on it a new text „Dröhne, du Donner“ (Roar, you Thunder!