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 | GER |
Judge | Fritz Stein | GER |
Judge | Georg Schumann | GER |
Judge | Max Trapp | GER |
Judge | Heinz Ihlert | GER |
Judge | Gustav Havemann | GER |
Judge | Heinz Tiessen | GER |
Judge | Yrjö Kilpinen | FIN |
Judge | Gian Francesco Malipiero | ITA |
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 | GER | Olympic Festival Music | Olympische Festmusik | Olympische Festmusik | Gold | ||
2 | – | Lino Liviabella | ITA | The Winner | Il Vincitore | Il Vincitore | Silver | ||
3 | – | Jaroslav Křička | TCH | Mountain Suite | Horácká suita | Bergsuite | Bronze | ||
– | Jiang Wen-Ye | JPN | Formosan Dance | 台湾の舞曲 (Taiwan bukyoku) | Tanz Formosa | ||||
– | Gian Luca Tocchi | ITA | Record | Recordo | Record | ||||
– | Hans Luckasch | AUT | Olympics Victory Fanfare March | Olympiade-Siegesfanfaren-Marsch | Olympiade-Siegesfanfaren-Marsch | ||||
– | Karl Pilß | AUT | Festive Prelude | Festliches Vorspiel | Festliches Vorspiel | ||||
– | Norbert Sprongl | AUT | Dance suite | Tanz-Suite | Tanz-Suite | ||||
– | Renzo Massarani | ITA | Fanfares and athletic dances | Squilli e danze atletiche | Squilli e danze atletiche | ||||
– | Noboru Ito | JPN | Nippon Sports | スポーツ日本 (Supōtsu Nihon) | Sport Nippon | ||||
– | Kosaku Yamada | JPN | March | 行進曲 (Kōshinkyoku) | March | ||||
– | Marc-César Scotto | MON | 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 | NED | In the beginning was the rhythm | – | Im Anfang war der Rhythmus | ||||
– | Alexander Langeweg | NED | Champion's March | – | Marcia Campione | ||||
– | František Koubek | TCH | With your own strength to victory | Vlastní silou – k vítězství | Mit eigener Kraft zum Sieg | ||||
– | Jan Pešta | TCH | Olympic Games | Olympijské hry | Olympische Spiele | ||||
– | Robert Sanders | USA | Olympia | – | Olympia | ||||
– | Roy Harris | USA | When Jonny comes Marching home | When Jonny comes Marching home | When Jonny comes Marching home | ||||
– | Quincy Porter | USA | Symphonic Ode | Symphonic Ode | Symphonic Ode | ||||
– | Demetrij Žebre | YUG | The Run | Tek (simfonicna slika za veliki orkester) | Cours |