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Keywords: Bax Olympic Theme, flash music, music for videos, cheap production music, stock music library, royalty free music loops, cheap royalty free music, flash music loops, instrumental music, royalty-free production music, stock music, buyout music, music loops, music for tv, royalty free music, music wav, royalty free audio, commercial stock music, royalty-free music, company music, music licensing, royalty free sounds, stock music loops, website music, stock music downloads, corporate music, download music, stock music tracks, royalty free music downloads, world music, video production london, demo music library, corporate video production london, hymn of praise acclamation, anthem, hymn, laud, laudation, ode, pean, praise, psalm, song musical tune aria, descant, lay, melody, song, worldwide rock The Olympic Hymn, also known informally as the Olympic Anthem, is played when the Olympic Flag is raised It is a musical piece composed by Spyridon Samaras with words written from a poem of the Greek poet and writer Kostis Palamas Both the poet and the composer were the choice of Demetrius Vikelas, a Greek Pro-European and the first President of the IOC The anthem was performed for the first time for the ceremony of opening of the 1896 Athens Olympic Games but wasn't declared the official hymn by the IOC until 1957 In the following years every hosting nation commissioned the composition of a specific Olympic hymn for their own edition of the Games This happened up until the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
In US, Leo Arnaud's "Bugler's Dream" is often considered to be the "Olympic theme" Written in 1958 for Arnaud's Charge Suite, it is this piece, more than any of the fanfares or Olympic themes, that Americans recognize as the Olympic theme
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