EUROPEAN ANTHEM
Ode “To Joy” by Friedrich Schiller
BRASS QUINTET
2 trumpets in Bb, horn in F, trombone, tuba
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In 1972, the Council of Europe declared Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” its anthem. In 1985 it was adopted by EU heads of state and government as the official anthem of the European Union. Without words, only in the universal language of music, it expresses the European values of freedom, peace and solidarity.
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