UEFA Champions League Anthem
Written by Tony Britten in 1992, the UEFA Champions League (football/soccer) anthem, officially titled Champions League, is an adaptation of George Frideric Handel's Zadok the Priest (1727), one of Handel's Coronation Anthems. The chorus is in the three official languages used by UEFA, English, French, and German. The chorus is played before each UEFA Champions League game as well as at the beginning and end of television broadcasts of the matches. The complete anthem is about three minutes long, and it has two short verses as well as the chorus.
The UEFA Champions League, known as the Champions League, is an annual international club football/soccer competition organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the top football/soccer clubs in Europe.
Tony Britten is an English composer and movie director. In addition to the UEFA Champions League anthem, he composed the music for the animated movie Mole's Christmas (1994); he wrote and directed Bohème (1999), a movie based on the famous Puccini opera; and in 2007, Britten adapted and directed a movie version (2007) of Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer (1773).
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) was a great German - English Baroque composer. Handel's compositions include 42 operas; 29 oratorios; more than 120 cantatas, trios, and duets; numerous arias; chamber music; a large number of ecumenical pieces; odes and serenatas; and 16 organ concerti. His oratorio Messiah, with its "Hallelujah" chorus, is among the most famous works of classical music. To Beethoven, George Frideric Handel was "the master of us all... the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb".
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