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Keywords: Bax Olympic Theme, commercial music, royalty-free song, buyout music, production music library, cheap production music, tv music, royalty free music downloads, royalty free mp3, television music, cheap royalty free music, music for video, stock music clips, instrumental music, royalty free audio, royalty free music, background music, license music, commercial stock music, music clips, website music, music licensing, stock music loops, film music, company music, music loops, music for videos, music for film, royalty-free stock music, royalty free background music, royalty free music for websites, network production music, independent music artists, 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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