RewriteRule not working on production server - php

Question

For my current project I have to Redirect 301 some links but when you enter them with some extra get parameters that parameters need to be suffixed on the new url.
Example:
Old:
/language/nl/article-1/?test=123
new:
/language/nl/fa1-artcile-1/?test=123
So I use the following code: (which works fine on my dev env)
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /language/nl
RewriteRule /artcile-1/* /language/nl/fa1-artcile-1/$1 [R=301,L]
But once on my production env it does not work, it still redirects to new url but, the get parameters are not appended on the new url.
Edit: It does redirect but it does not append the parameters.
Edit 2: full fill
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
The rewrite rule(s) come before the wordpress part and I have about 30 of them.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Have it like this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^language/nl/article-1/?$ /language/nl/fa1-artcile-1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Answer 2

You need to append the query string:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Answer 3

Probably the other answers here are correct as well. But for my case they won't work.
The env it is running up is a MS Azure env, so I need to have a web.config file instead of a .htaccess file (how ever, it works for some part).
Thanks for all the quick help and thinking!