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Keywords: Bax Olympic Theme, production music library, websites music, stock music downloads, music for video, royalty-free stock music, royalty-free song, royalty free background music, flash music loops, royalty free music loops, royalty-free production music, download music, instrumental music, stock music loops, corporate music, stock music, flash music, company music, music wav, music clips, film music, stock music sound effects, royalty-free songs, cheap royalty free music, world music, royalty free music, stock music tracks, music for film, website music, royalty free music library, royalty free music loops for download, swanky royalty free music, international music library project, 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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