[Berlin_Freeper]

the victorious Macron appeared in front of supporters in Paris to the sound of EU anthem Ode To Joy – rather than iconic French anthem La Marseillaise.

BEETHOVEN.ODE TO JOY

Ode to Joy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Ode to Joy" (German: "An die Freude" [an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə], first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken") is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.

"Ode to Joy" is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824.

[Berlin_Freeper]

La Marseillaise, French National Anthem (Fr/En)

[silverleaf]

Why not have Angela Merkel pick his celebration music?

[baltimorepoet]

Interesting, I knew that Count Coudenhove-Kalergi proposed “Ode to Joy” as an anthem for a United Europe, but I didn’t know it had been adopted as such by the EU.