Date | 1 – 16 August 1936 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Ausstellungsgelände Halle VI, Kaiserdamm, Berlin | |
Participants | 20 from 9 countries | |
Judge | Peter Raabe | ![]() |
Judge | Fritz Stein | ![]() |
Judge | Georg Schumann | ![]() |
Judge | Max Trapp | ![]() |
Judge | Heinz Ihlert | ![]() |
Judge | Gustav Havemann | ![]() |
Judge | Heinz Tiessen | ![]() |
Judge | Yrjö Kilpinen | ![]() |
Judge | Gian Francesco Malipiero | ![]() |
With 20 entries, Compositions For Orchestra was the most popular musical event at the 1936 Olympics. The winner was Werner Egk, although Egk was a pseudonym composed of his wife’s intials, his real name being Mayer. Egk was a government favorite during the Nazi period, although later denied any sympathies. The lyrics for his winning work in 1936, Olympische Festmusik, were from Carl Diem, chief organizer of the Games.
A novelty in Olympic music contests was that the winning works were performed live during the Olympics. During a concert on 15 August at the Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne (part of the Olympic complex), both Egk’s winning entry and Lino Liviabella’s Il Vincitore were played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert had been opened with a version of the Olympic Hymn by Richard Strauss. 20,000 spectators attended the concert.
Pos | Catalogue Number | Competitor | NOC | Translated Title | Original Title | Title in Olympic Report or Catalogue | |||
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1 | – | Werner Egk | ![]() | Olympic Festival Music | Olympische Festmusik | Olympische Festmusik | Gold | ||
2 | – | Lino Liviabella | ![]() | The Winner | Il Vincitore | Il Vincitore | Silver | ||
3 | – | Jaroslav Křička | ![]() | Mountain Suite | Horácká suita | Bergsuite | Bronze | ||
– | Jiang Wen-Ye | ![]() | Formosan Dance | 台湾の舞曲 (Taiwan bukyoku) | Tanz Formosa | ||||
– | Gian Luca Tocchi | ![]() | Record | Recordo | Record | ||||
– | Hans Luckasch | ![]() | Olympics Victory Fanfare March | Olympiade-Siegesfanfaren-Marsch | Olympiade-Siegesfanfaren-Marsch | ||||
– | Karl Pilß | ![]() | Festive Prelude | Festliches Vorspiel | Festliches Vorspiel | ||||
– | Norbert Sprongl | ![]() | Dance suite | Tanz-Suite | Tanz-Suite | ||||
– | Renzo Massarani | ![]() | Fanfares and athletic dances | Squilli e danze atletiche | Squilli e danze atletiche | ||||
– | Noboru Ito | ![]() | Nippon Sports | スポーツ日本 (Supōtsu Nihon) | Sport Nippon | ||||
– | Kosaku Yamada | ![]() | March | 行進曲 (Kōshinkyoku) | March | ||||
– | Marc-César Scotto | ![]() | Hercules offers the Games to the peoples of Monaco | Hercule offre les Jeux aux peuplades de Monaco | Hercule offre les Jeux aux peuplades de Monaco | ||||
– | Marius Monnikendam | ![]() | In the beginning was the rhythm | – | Im Anfang war der Rhythmus | ||||
– | Alexander Langeweg | ![]() | Champion's March | – | Marcia Campione | ||||
– | František Koubek | ![]() | With your own strength to victory | Vlastní silou – k vítězství | Mit eigener Kraft zum Sieg | ||||
– | Jan Pešta | ![]() | Olympic Games | Olympijské hry | Olympische Spiele | ||||
– | Robert Sanders | ![]() | Olympia | – | Olympia | ||||
– | Roy Harris | ![]() | When Jonny comes Marching home | When Jonny comes Marching home | When Jonny comes Marching home | ||||
– | Quincy Porter | ![]() | Symphonic Ode | Symphonic Ode | Symphonic Ode | ||||
– | Demetrij Žebre | ![]() | The Run | Tek (simfonicna slika za veliki orkester) | Cours |