NATO anthem

The NATO anthem is the official anthem of the Western military alliance .

history

The first proposals go back to the 1950s. An early forerunner was a ceremonial march by the British Thomas Hildebrand Preston, which was composed in 1958 to mark the 10th anniversary of NATO. In 1960, RAF Air Marshal Sir Edward Chilton proposed a combined hymn of all 15 member states at the time. Ultimately, an orchestral work by the Luxembourg captain André Reichling, the conductor of the Luxembourg military band, remained successful. The piece was written in 1989 and is purely instrumental; a text does not exist. It was performed on many official NATO occasions and was in fact their anthem for three decades . It officially received this status in January 2018 on the advice of the North Atlantic Council .

Web links

• Official NATO Internet presence: NATO Adopts official hymn (Engl.)
• Audio sample

Individual evidence

1. ↑ augengeradeaus.net NATO now with an official anthem ; Thomas Wiegold , accessed on October 13, 2018