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Beethoven has topped this year's Classic 100: Feel Good countdown with his Symphony No. 9, including the "Ode To Joy" anthem. The music is beloved across concert stages, as well as popular culture ...

Perhaps all of that seems only natural, given the fact that Beethoven progressively lost his hearing and was therefore deaf when he wrote his later works (including the Ninth Symphony).

The symphony, widely regarded as one ... the choir has been singing the stirring Ode to Joy, the choral finale of Beethoven’s Ninth. Based on a poem by Friedrich von Schiller, it embraces ...

It’s a crucial point in Weinstein’s film, which was originally planned as an exploration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony ... the originally German Ode to Joy text sung in Ukrainian.

"A brief introduction about Beethoven's compositional ... As we all know by now Symphony No. 9 is famous for its setting of Friedrich Schiller's poem Ode to Joy - a text the composer had been ...

“Ode to Joy,” or “Ode to ... was immortalized in 1824 when Ludwig van Beethoven used an altered version as the basis for the fourth movement of his 9th Symphony — a highly irregular ...

Written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf, Symphony No. 9 received enthusiastic applause during its premiere in Vienna in 1824. The finale, Ode To Joy, scored for choir and soloists ...

the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven, is … packed with meaning. And it's something which inspired Beethoven very much toward the end of his life. He had read the poem [Ode to Joy] by Friedrich ...