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Dale Davies

Beethoven Symphony Number Nine 4th movement.

You sound like a potential classic music fan Dale :)


"Ode to Joy" (German: "Ode an die Freude", first line: "Freude, schöner
Götterfunken") is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and
historian Friedrich Schiller, enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood
and unity of all mankind. Despite the lasting popularity of the ode,
Schiller himself regarded it as a failure later in his life, going so far as
calling it "detached from reality" and "of value maybe for us two, but not
for the world, nor for the art of poetry" in a letter to his long-time
friend and patron Körner (whose friendship had originally inspired him to
write the ode) that he wrote in the year 1800.

To the extent the forgoing account is true, it may be due to Schiller's
having changed a key word out of fear. "Leonard Bernstein reminded his
audiences, the poem was originally an 'Ode to Freedom' and the word 'Joy'
(Freude instead of Freiheit, added to the third pillar, Freundschaft) came
as a substitute for the more overtly political theme."

The ode is best known for its musical setting by Ludwig van Beethoven in the
final movement of his Ninth Symphony (completed in 1824), a choral symphony
for orchestra, four solo voices and choir."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy


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