The two hymns to Apollo that became known as "Delphic hymns" were discovered by the French Archaeological School in Athens in 1893. They were found engraved on the hoard of the Athenians at Delphi.
They are two paeans dated by Theodor Reinach ca. 138 B.C. for the first and ca. 128 BC for the second. Reinach also transcribed them into modern music semantics. His work was published with comments by Henri Well in the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, (The first Delphic Hymn in 1893 and the second in 1894).These two works are certainly the most extensive specimens of ancient Creek music preserved until today. In the execution proposed by us, the missi ng (unreadable) parts of the musical text were cornpleted by Christodoulos Halaris. The work is attributed to the Athenian Limenios.

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