During Strauss' short tenure as President of the Reichmusikkammer he was given the task of writing the Hymn for the XVI Olympic Games to take place in Berlin in 1936. The work is a choral setting of a text by Robert Lubhan. The original score was for chorus and orchestra with an added section of trumpets. Naturally, due to the perishable nature of the text, it is unlikely to be heard except in its arrangement for brass ensemble. It opens with a three-times repeated call, which gives way to a rhythmical fanfare motive. The main hymn-like theme follows, and a subsidiary theme is heard immediately afterwards. These motives are alternated and developed, with the culmination based on the subsidiary theme. A trumpet figuration announces the reappearance of the fanfare motive that serves as a coda.

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