Ludwig van Beethoven Ode to Joy from Ninth Symphony
"Ode to Joy" is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony.
It's sad he couldn't hear his own music, because he was completely deaf at that time.
The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony. The words are sung during the final movement of the symphony by four vocal soloists and chorus. They were taken from a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with text additions made by Beethoven (Wikipedia).
You can possible slightly Increase the volume while listening, I had to keep the volume down to get it sound ”right” when recording.
Pictures are from Finland this summer.
I think we could play this Beethoven music when we finally beat covid -19.
What a joy and relief it would be that day I had it in mind when I was working with this piece and looking for pictures.
Enjoy!
]]>