"Il Silenzio" is a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands.

In a cemetery about six miles from the Dutch city of Maastricht lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to liberate the Netherlands in the fall and winter of 1944–5. Everyone of the men buried in the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries has been adopted by a Dutch family who tend the grave and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted.
It is the custom to keep a portrait of "their" foreign soldier in a place of honour in their home.
Annually on "Liberation Day", Memorial Services are held for the men who died to liberate the Netherlands.
The day concludes with a concert, at which "Il Silenzio" has always been the concluding piece.

In 2008 the soloist was a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by André Rieu and the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands.

The song is the official club hymn of the Slovakian football club FC Spartak Trnava. It is played before every home match.

Part of the song is also used in all the Italian barracks, to signal the end of the day.



Det är något speciellt över den här låten och framförandet, jag blir då rörd av den.

Originalet (nini ross)