Music as an Olympic event???

Olympic Hymn ---- Olympische Hymne

1936 Berlin Games

Music Richard Strauss

Text Robert Lubahn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLv_4uJfzHs

Aarre Merikanto

Olympia-fanfaari (Olympic Fanfare)

Composed: SH: 1939 / ES: 1939 and another fanfare 1952

4 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani

Duration: 5'

1st prize in a composition competition for an Olympic fanfare (1952)

http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?read...

Extracted From:

http://olympicstudies.uab.es/volunteers/guegold.ht...

Arts Competitions

The early arts competitions have long since faded from the minds of nearly every contemporary Olympic student. However, Pierre de Coubertin did recognize the uniqueness of the arts in a competitive nature and noted in his "Suggestions To Competitors of 1912" that "however it is treated, art cannot be ruled the same way as sport." Despite some degree of concern about the judging methods, competitions in architecture, city planning, sculpture, painting, music, and literature were conducted from 1912 through 1948. Dramatic plays were entered as part of the literature category. These contests were held seven times, associated with each Olympic Games during this period (three were canceled due to world wars in 1916, 1940, and 1944).