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Olympics 2024 Theme Composer Victor le Masne Found the Melody in Three Seconds. Then the Real Work Began


The composer of the official theme of the Paris Olympics 2024, Victor le Masne, talks about the song's creative spark, how he got the job and more.

The rousing sports-anthem melody that will underpin the opening and closing Olympics 2024 ceremonies came to Victor le Masne in roughly three seconds. The Paris 2024 organizers picked le Masne to compose the new theme, titled “Parade,” after he’d rearranged the French National Anthem, “La Marseillaise,” for the end of the Tokyo Games. An orchestra performed the new piece for the first time May 8, when the Olympic flame arrived in Paris on a yacht — with le Masne on piano and synthesizer.

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