Anthem of Europe
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"Anthem of Europe" is the anthem used by two organisations, the Council of Europe to represent the whole of Europe, and the European Union.
It is based on "Ode to Joy" from the final movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony composed in 1823.
The anthem is played on official occasions such as political or civil events.
Composer Ludwig van Beethoven Friedrich Schiller wrote the poem "An die Freude" （"To Joy"） in 1785 as a "celebration of the brotherhood of man".
In later life, the poet was contemptuous of this popularity and dismissed the poem as typical of "the bad taste of the age" in which it had been written.
After Schiller's death, the poem provided the words for the choral movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
In 1971 the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to propose adopting the prelude to the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the anthem, taking up a suggestion made by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1955.
Beethoven was generally seen as the natural choice for a European anthem.
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe officially announced the European Anthem on 19 January 1972 at Strasbourg: the prelude to "Ode to Joy", 4th movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony.
In 1974 the same piece of music was adopted as the national anthem of the unrecognized state of Rhodesia.
Conductor Herbert von Karajan was asked to write three instrumental arrangements – for solo piano, for wind instruments and for symphony orchestra and he conducted the performance used to make the official recording.
He wrote his decisions on the score, notably those concerning the tempo.
Karajan decided on minim （half note） = 80 whereas Beethoven had written crotchet （quarter note） = 120.
The anthem was launched via a major information campaign on Europe D...
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