Royalty-Free Festive Music for Video

What festive music sounds like

Festive music tells the audience that this moment matters. Different occasions call for different shades of celebration:

• Fanfares and timpani for openings, award announcements and entrances.
• Marches — regular phrases at a walking tempo — for processions, anniversary retrospectives and sports honours.
• Elegant strings — waltzes and baroque pieces such as Pachelbel or Handel — for galas, receptions and gala dinners.
• Solemn and choral colours for ceremonies, jubilees and moments of recognition.
• Joyful dances — polka, accordion and band — for summer parties and company celebrations. See German folk music.

Match the music to the occasion

• Galas and award shows: a fanfare for the opening title, a short sting for each award category, an elegant bed under the recap reel.
• Company anniversaries and jubilees: a march or a solemn anthem for the history montage, something brighter for the look ahead.
• Weddings and milestone birthdays: see wedding video music and celebration & birthday music.
• Holiday spots and seasonal greetings: festive orchestral pieces with bells and strings; for carols and Christmas specifically, see Christmas music for video.
• Celebration of life slideshows: a tribute that celebrates a life often calls for warm, dignified music — solemn strings, gentle piano, a familiar hymn. Our memorial and tribute slideshow collection gathers calm, respectful pieces.

Editing festive music

• Put the fanfare on the title. Let the first brass call coincide with your logo or event name.
• Use the phrase structure. Marches and waltzes move in regular eight-bar phrases, which makes them easy to trim and to cut award names on the phrase ends.
• Plan stings in advance. Cut a two-to-four-second sting from the opening of your theme track and reuse it between segments for a consistent show identity.
• Mind the room. Content shown on a big screen at an event needs a mix that works on venue speakers — full, but with the peaks under control.

Tracks to start with

• Olympiade Marsch — an orchestral brass march by Paul Lorenz; epic, festive and solemn for openings, honours and anniversaries.
• Handel: Hallelujah — an instrumental orchestral version with trumpets and strings; jubilant for award moments and milestone films.
• Wedding March (with Fanfare) — Mendelssohn's Wedding March with fanfare, for entrances, receptions and anniversary celebrations.

For holiday spots, Deck the Halls brings orchestra, strings and bells. Browse all festive, solemn and elegant tracks or party & celebration music.

Licensing — and playback at the event

Artyfile Basic — €29.90 per track, once. Worldwide, in perpetuity, sync and master rights in one licence for the music inside your video: the gala opener, the recap film, the anniversary film, the holiday spot and the social clips around them. Instant 44.1 kHz WAV, PDF invoice and licence certificate.

• Playback at the venue: presenting your video at an event is part of your project; the public performance of the music in the gala hall, at the award ceremony or at a Christmas market is a separate matter that the organiser or venue settles under their collection-society agreement (for example GEMA, AKM, SUISA or PRS).
• Collection societies: Artyfile manages sync and master rights directly, so the licence carries no additional GEMA or collection-society fee. For TV and radio broadcasts, cue sheets go to the relevant society; Artyfile supplies the details on request.
• YouTube Content ID: Artyfile registers its catalogue in Content ID with a monetization policy. A claim may appear on your video; it is not a copyright strike, and your channel stays in good standing. With Basic, the ad revenue claimed for the music goes to Artyfile, not to your channel.
• Client work: the licence stays with you, the licensee. Your client receives the finished video with cleared music, and the licence certificate documents the rights. A client who wants to use the recording on its own, outside that video, needs their own licence.

Every track is a real recording by professional musicians and ensembles, never AI-generated, and curated by composer and conductor Paul Lorenz. Full terms on the pricing page.