André Reichling (1 February 1956 – 7 September 2020) was a Luxembourgish

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and the bandmaster of the

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between 1986 and 2011. He composed the NATO Hymn in 1989, which formally became the official anthem for NATO in 2018. He died in 2020.https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1576711.html

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