Holy Moly... Can we talk about how the animation in this episode ALSO converted a lot of emotion? This video is a masterpiece! I wish this channel was more widespread in Brazil.
"Beethoven's fifth takes its listeners through a dark world, then guides them into the light" such a beautiful and accurate phrase. Great video. Thanks!
Imagine being in the theatre during that time period and hearing this for the first time. The first time it was ever performed. It must have been magnificent
“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven, challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.” F. Chopin
1:12 The trap music. The stance. The hairdo. The eyeshadow. The goth death stare. The dead tree. The crows flying out in the background. Thank you Ted Ed for this masterpiece.
@@SiberianScytheYT Not necessarily. The creator of the Morse code could've known about the music piece and roman numeral. And therefore he could've assigned the morse for "V" to be that.
Just as the Beethoven's piece, Ted ed's animation is a masterpiece. I jst cant imagine how you can create such a marvelous visuals to perfectly accompany with this script. Absolutely loved it....
True story: Beethoven - Germany’s greatest musical genius - once met Goethe - Germany’s greatest literary genius. They went for a walk in a park, where they were about to cross paths with members of the aristocratic class. Goethe, the old man raised in the ways of tradition, stepped aside to let them pass. Beethoven, the young man and product of the Enlightenment, continued walking so the aristocrats had to stop for him.
@@LETMino85 He despised them so much that he was willing to be friends with many of them, dedicate his works to them and accept multiple patronages. Granted he never was a court musician like Haydn for most of his life, or Mozart until he turned 22, but he was never hesistant to cozy up to them, because they still were the hand that fed him.
@@Quotenwagnerianer You’re quite right, though Mozart was a court musician until 1781 when he left Salzburg and moved to Vienna which made him 25, so he was freelance for the last ten years of his life. Haydn was essentially a freelance composer from 1790 - ie before Beethoven, who only arrived in Vienna in 1792 having been previously employed at the Bonn court. Haydn found his honorary status - he had virtually no duties at all - and pensions from the Eszterhazy family a useful supplement to his income made in England, from concerts, subscriptions, publications, and the like. Haydn was really only a court musician/composer from: 1757-61 with Count Morzin 1761-90 with the Eszterhazy family (though as explained, he was kept on in an honorary capacity until his death in 1809). In other words,he was a court composer only 33 of his 77 years which is absolutely *not* ‘…most of his life’. Hope that clears up this quite common misconception about Haydn.
This video did Beethoven's fifth symphony justice, like the art and bgm and the narrator's voice really carried the suspenseful atmosphere throughout the video. Wow just wow.
"In the Hall of the Mountain King" clearly represents our exams. Because the music starts as a beautiful song and ends as a intense action-movie theme.
Can you just imagine sitting in that room when this symphony was played for the first time. I am planning to travel back in time to experience it, it will be worth it,,,, now where did I park the Delorean.
Please Ted Ed; you do such a tremendous job with literature, that I would love to see a regular series of videos on classical compositions and composers. A "Why You Should Listen To..." Series. I would immediately subscribe to that playlist.
dunno if he was so deaf at 5th, but he was deaf at his 9th. he was not able to conduct the 9th symphony and rumor is he never ever actually listened to it, this masterpiece existed in his mind only.
@@rivenoak He was present at the premiere of the 9th and when the audience applauded at the conclusion one of the singers had to take his hand and turn him to face the audience so he could SEE the applause that he couldn’t hear. When he wrote the 5th he was probably aware that he was losing his hearing. For a musician and composer how horrible that must have been.
I had goosebumps watching this with furiously impressive animation and mildly deep narration voice with the powerful masterpiece of Beethoven playing in the background it is the perfect combo for my mind to just get lit up
This video itself is a perfect harmony of brilliant writing, mesmarising animation and smooth narration, which makes the viewer take a dip in the Beethoven era. Brilliant Ted-Ed you never cease to amaze us.
After Beethoven became completely dead he used to play a piano by holding a copper wire tightly between his teeth which was connected to the piano , so that he could 'hear' the notes through the vibrations. Pure dedication.
This is by far one of the BEST Ted-Ed video essays I've watched, I got chills several times as I was watching throughout! The animation in sync with the music and the amazing narration and storyline (as always), Ted-Ed never fails to impress!!! The facts at the end about it spelling out V in morse code and being used to signal triumph among the allies during the war was SO cool
If someone would set animation to these, it would get wildly popular again. Music seems to have gotten dumber and simpler with each generation. Now it is just monotone auto-tune.
As someone who has just recently started listening to classical music, this video is so informative! I now have tools to use to find and understand messages in other pieces as well, and my appreciation for this type of music only grows. Please do more of these!
When i first heard this and didnt know its name i searched it up on TH-cam as dun dun dun duuun and to my surprise i did get what i wanted to listen to. Kudos to TH-cam.
Thank you. I’ve lost a lot of my love for classical music in the past years since I’ve entered college and stopped playing the violin, but seeing the music theory and and reliving the beauty of this symphony has brought back many sweet memories of the days that I used to rely on classical music as a source of happiness and calmness. I will certainly be listening to the fully symphony now
Learning what sonata form is and listening to a symphony more than once has actually made me addicted to symphonies. Its so pleasuring an rewarding to notice all the details
Oddly enough, on that same night the the Fifth made its premiere, was the premiere of the beautiful Sixth, his Pastoral Symphony. The man was a veritable cornucopia of musical ideas.
Composes the 5th while going deaf ands composes the 9th while completely deaf. The man's brilliance and musical genius is outstanding. It's no wonder why his work was included in the collection of humanity's achievements and understanding that was sent out into space
Classical music impresses me a lot. It drives me from one emotion to another. It makes me feel all the emotions, from relaxing, calm feelings to epic ones. Definitely an incredibly beautiful experience.
His 5th is my favorite of his symphonies, though not just due to the powerful motif build (which yes I love) but the uplifting finale of the 4th movement is so indescribably phenomenal. Anybody who's never listened to the full thing certainly should give it a go. Also if you're interested in his emotional side of it, the 7th symphony has some very painful sounds to his depression of loosing his hearing.
Similar to the events of Beethoven’s life at the time the symphonies were composed his 5th Symphony warns you about the twists and dangers lurking ahead while his 9th Symphony tells you you're going to be alright.
Holy.... The animation, the naration, and the music is very overwhelming. In some parts I felt I was underwater and desperately catching air. This is a masterpiece!
I literally had goosebumps from the animation, the sound effects and the narrator's voice. All of it just go so perfectly together that I wonder how the production could do these functions in separation, because it feels so organic and united. This video is such a masterpiece in every way.
I love your videos! I work as an English tutor and sometimes I give my students a task to watch your videos. This one is probably the next one for this. As noted by many, the animation is simply captivating and perfectly follows the narrative and the symphony itself. Thank you so much!
Isn't it awesome that you could immediately hear these notes in your head when you saw the thumbnail? That's how great this piece is, that's how great Beethoven is.
I admire that not only this Ted video lacks even minor mistakes but also that everything is done with great care and precision to a point of an overwhelming manner upon a masterpiece.
I like how the video interprets the symphony. "It takes its listeners through a dark world then guides them into the light." BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND SAID!🙌
Beethoven being dark and gloomy is literally a perfect representation of his music. A lot of his compositions is mostly revolved around dark motifs, like minors, tritones, and such. He's like literally the inverse of Mozart.
I went through a period years ago of listening to a lot of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic music. After I got a good feeling for Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart I listened to Beethoven and was blown away by the strength of his achievement in the context of those earlier composers. It goes without saying of course they were all incredible but his sound is just so big and it must have been astounding to hear it in the days he made it.
I had to watch the video twice to properly listen to the narration, since for my first watch I kept humming the music aloud. I guess that's how powerful the Fifth Symphony is.
@@segmentsAndCurves I mean, to be fair, the “short melodies” are motifs that are expanded upon and played around with to make truly suspending music., and not just mindless 4 chord songs that don’t really that much thought into them
@@segmentsAndCurves I meant suspenseful, as in like Beethoven’s music really makes you sit on the edge of your seat and really want to know what will come next. Also electric being better than acoustic is 100% subjective. I’d listen to an authentic instrument over any synth or electric guitar or any modern day instrument any day of the week
I don't know how many Ted-Ed videos I've watched so far; this one made me forget all the others. Not only the animation is amazingly done, but also the narration is mesmerizing. Big up to the whole team who worked on this video.
I remember when my Mom bought a radio to my school that we already have in my house, that radio played cd's, and my Mom already used it in his school (she was a teacher) to play a Beethoven 5th symphony disc, she says it worked with her students to improve their tests, when I listened to that disc I was absorted by the MUSIC, I didn't make a single noise, I was listening, I was too young to remember the conductor or the orchestra, but later I searched the music in TH-cam, later I found all the other classical music pieces that I heard in tv and movies and even watched opera (with subtitles) and found different recordings from the same pieces and now I search recordings and choose the ones I love, I already studied Music and form part of a youth orchestra, but now I'm beginning from zero in another consevartory, now with more seriousness but I always like to investigate about the works and composer's life, other than that I get more into History by having a soundtrack (thanks to Internet), I always have like classical music, even my Mom put classical cd's when she was pregnant, I like all composers and each great work I find, from piano works to OPERA, I know I am the rare in this, and at the time I write this, I'm 17 years old. This is one of the best and convincing explanations of Beethoven's 5th on Internet.
I would consider this video to be a tribute to Beethoven. The thumbnail and the video itself are both first class. Truly a masterpiece.. both the symphony and this video made about it.
yes beethoven is a super genius, but let's also appreciate how this video's narration is written so well it perfectly describes the music as it plays. it just goes so well
Nobody would ever imagine why I watched the video! I love the narrator's English accent! Hey! Come on! The drawings are mysterious and captivating too. Amazing!
My dad plays in the orchestra and I heard him called this piece “Grim Reaper’s knocks”. I got a glimpse of what he said back then but now watching this video it makes so much more sense and even got a deeper look into this piece. Thanks Ted-Ed
to think that he developed that feeling of music inside him so much that even fate cant allow him to go further and tried stopping him by deafness, but he couldn't be stopped sounds like a drama.
Beethoven squatting like a gangsta on a tree branch is an image that I can no longer unsee. And I will not complain about it.
Rockstar!? 🤣
History of the remix
with the remix? fire
Agreed
@@crixhussodinson2523Everything is a Jojo reference
Holy Moly... Can we talk about how the animation in this episode ALSO converted a lot of emotion?
This video is a masterpiece! I wish this channel was more widespread in Brazil.
Ludo! Didn't expected to see you here, my friend!
If everybody had subscribed this channel we will have 100 Einsteins and the most innovative generation in entire history
Another fellow brazilian here =D
Esse canal é muito bom né! E de fato, as animações são muito bem feitas!
Absolutely right. The graphics are gorgeous and moving
The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth is the music that plays in my head in the last 5 minutes of an exam.
Only that, for 5 minutes?
Booooring
@:O🍡 true
it also happpens in the last moments of a game when i am about to die but desperately holding on.
Really? Mine is “In the Hall of the Mountain King”…
@@segmentsAndCurves It is loudest when I start a question when they ask to finish the question you are on and they start taking the papers.
"Beethoven's fifth takes its listeners through a dark world, then guides them into the light" such a beautiful and accurate phrase.
Great video. Thanks!
It takes you through your dark emotions, back into the light.
I wish music like this, would be more appreciated these days, not just music students
I could practically hear the notes just by looking at the thumbnail! That's how famous symphony no. 5 really is.
Ikr! I've heard people say dun dun dun da dudun dun and I'd immediately know what It was !
@@anushanair161 yessss that's why I clicked on this video after recognizing it
SAMEE!!
I wish I could read music…🥲
@@TheWchurchill4pm You could learn! Do not despair my fellow human!
Imagine being in the theatre during that time period and hearing this for the first time. The first time it was ever performed. It must have been magnificent
I was thinking the same. People must have been stunned.
It must have been jaw dropping. A goosebumping experience. I can only imagine. I think I would have cried.
I would literally cry 😭😭😭.
The way TedEd resepcts and cultivates education especially with regards to narration and animation is masterful. Beautiful episode
“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven, challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.” F. Chopin
They used the wrong kind of horn though...
A very Calm video on why Existential emptiness creates bad parents th-cam.com/video/vdwR6sVRulk/w-d-xo.html
it's amazing how even a person who doesn't know much music theory (like me) can understand what the narrator is saying!
truly a masterpiece in itself
1:12
The trap music. The stance. The hairdo. The eyeshadow. The goth death stare. The dead tree. The crows flying out in the background.
Thank you Ted Ed for this masterpiece.
They take care of the details all of the times, but this video is more majestic in my point of view
Chad Beethoven 😂
Ikr 🤣👌🏼
Beathoven
I need a t-shirt if this scene.
1:10 That's exactly how I imagined him, "The first Rock star"
I like to think of him as the first metalhead. You *know* he would have been all over electric guitars if they'd have been around.
Trust me, he will be one of the greatest rock star if his birth came 200 years later.
@@athena8794This is best guitar solo made by Beethoven th-cam.com/video/NxnV-1LLa8w/w-d-xo.html
@Zelda Aubriella I am familiar with it cause of Mr. Bean
And he’d fit in really well because all rock stars from back in the day are deaf now
"V" in morse code , that's interesting because it also means five in roman numeration. 5th Symphony
Hold up... 😳
That may or may not have been intentional.
@@SiberianScytheYT Morse code was invented in the 1830s - after Beethoven's death.
@@Pranav_Bhamidipati well bruh, it's a very coincidental coincidence in that case.
@@SiberianScytheYT Not necessarily. The creator of the Morse code could've known about the music piece and roman numeral. And therefore he could've assigned the morse for "V" to be that.
Just as the Beethoven's piece, Ted ed's animation is a masterpiece. I jst cant imagine how you can create such a marvelous visuals to perfectly accompany with this script. Absolutely loved it....
Animated by Yael Reisfeld
@@ForteExpresso Much love to the Yael Reisfeld.
having goosebumps watching this, true masterpiece!
Well well.. easy, dear, easy.
True story:
Beethoven - Germany’s greatest musical genius - once met Goethe - Germany’s greatest literary genius. They went for a walk in a park, where they were about to cross paths with members of the aristocratic class. Goethe, the old man raised in the ways of tradition, stepped aside to let them pass. Beethoven, the young man and product of the Enlightenment, continued walking so the aristocrats had to stop for him.
endearing story
Yeah, Beethoven despised the upper class system. Apparently, they didn't get along too well 😆
Beethoven hated aristocrats and royalty.
@@LETMino85 He despised them so much that he was willing to be friends with many of them, dedicate his works to them and accept multiple patronages.
Granted he never was a court musician like Haydn for most of his life, or Mozart until he turned 22, but he was never hesistant to cozy up to them, because they still were the hand that fed him.
@@Quotenwagnerianer
You’re quite right, though Mozart was a court musician until 1781 when he left Salzburg and moved to Vienna which made him 25, so he was freelance for the last ten years of his life.
Haydn was essentially a freelance composer from 1790 - ie before Beethoven, who only arrived in Vienna in 1792 having been previously employed at the Bonn court.
Haydn found his honorary status - he had virtually no duties at all - and pensions from the Eszterhazy family a useful supplement to his income made in England, from concerts, subscriptions, publications, and the like.
Haydn was really only a court musician/composer from:
1757-61 with Count Morzin
1761-90 with the Eszterhazy family
(though as explained, he was kept on in an honorary capacity until his death in 1809).
In other words,he was a court composer only 33 of his 77 years which is absolutely *not* ‘…most of his life’.
Hope that clears up this quite common misconception about Haydn.
The animation though! You guys never fail to impress
Qué maravillosa explicación y presentación de tan magnifica obra…!!!!! 🏆
@Nоt RickRоll 👇 o a rickroll would be better than what you’re linking
I agree! I like the action!
Your unoriginal asf comment never fails to impress me
@@brodyllc damn bro it's not that deep 😂
1:12 The power. The pose. The presence. A man ahead of his time
Listening to this symphony is an experience.
Listening to anything is an experience. That's what an experience is.
Deep.
@@CaptainBohnenbrot hahaha
@Nоt RickRоll 👇 o a rickroll would be better than what your linking
Indeed
This video did Beethoven's fifth symphony justice, like the art and bgm and the narrator's voice really carried the suspenseful atmosphere throughout the video. Wow just wow.
1:13 Beethoven bout to drop the hottest mixtape of the 19th century 😭👌🏼💯🔥🔥
Mozart is shaking
The music, the animation, his smug face- perfection.
@@TEDEd Mozart better shake hard or else they gon lose career
Mozart has been quite since this drop
It's like a ray of light
20th century translation: IT'S LIT BRO STRAIGHT FIRE
0:48 that transition was a masterstroke of thought and execution
This was the first classical music I heard in my life and it made my spine chill.
Classical music needs to have the music video attached and it it would catch fire again.
Modern pop music is pure junk if you keep listening to more and more classical music and will reach the same conclusion.
@@georgiaguardian4696 this what the public said about Beethoven's music during his time. thanks for your contribution.
@@lushbIood what
@@lushbIood 😂 Touche
1:08 i almost got an heart attack, what a wonderful production!
The transition at 1:10 is so epic I've never seen Beethoven in so much swag
4:13
I don't know why, but the moment he closed his eyes, I almost cried. This shows how hauntingly beautiful the animation is!
"In the Hall of the Mountain King" clearly represents our exams. Because the music starts as a beautiful song and ends as a intense action-movie theme.
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" ,when you approve the exams!!!!
I'd say John Cage's 4'33 would better represents exams as the music is very similar to the number of marks you'll get
@@sinpi314 Haha
More like because you quickly run out of breath but they won't let you stop and eventually you collapse to the floor.
The transition from a huge theatre to a bus with headphones made me sad how fast time flies. I wish i could be there to listen it live😭
Thank you, for bringing out the depth and intricacies of Beethoven's work in a manner that non-musicians like many of us get to appreciate.
Can you just imagine sitting in that room when this symphony was played for the first time. I am planning to travel back in time to experience it, it will be worth it,,,, now where did I park the Delorean.
Who else are familiar with his symphonies because of Tom and Jerry....
And on looney toons
@@BentleyBohemian_96 yes
That one episode of mr. Bean haha
@@lumpyspace3045 I remember that one where his shadow is like a Frankenstein
@@amansahayminz8247 yes haha
This song is a mix. It shows bliss, drama, doom, celebration, loss and it makes the music to sound out almost all emotions we can recognize.
Please Ted Ed; you do such a tremendous job with literature, that I would love to see a regular series of videos on classical compositions and composers. A "Why You Should Listen To..." Series. I would immediately subscribe to that playlist.
Thiiiiiissss
You spoke my mind😭
YES!!!!!
You can also check the Sticky Notes podcast. It's like this but one hour long.
Agreed!
*Beethoven finishes*
*Applause follows*
Beethoven: I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
Oof
F
dunno if he was so deaf at 5th, but he was deaf at his 9th.
he was not able to conduct the 9th symphony and rumor is he never ever actually listened to it, this masterpiece existed in his mind only.
@@rivenoak He was present at the premiere of the 9th and when the audience applauded at the conclusion one of the singers had to take his hand and turn him to face the audience so he could SEE the applause that he couldn’t hear.
When he wrote the 5th he was probably aware that he was losing his hearing. For a musician and composer how horrible that must have been.
@@rivenoak i thought he was deaf since a young age, so he taught himself the piano by feeling vibrations
I had goosebumps watching this with furiously impressive animation and mildly deep narration voice with the powerful masterpiece of Beethoven playing in the background it is the perfect combo for my mind to just get lit up
Same
Me too.
This video itself is a perfect harmony of brilliant writing, mesmarising animation and smooth narration, which makes the viewer take a dip in the Beethoven era. Brilliant Ted-Ed you never cease to amaze us.
After Beethoven became completely dead he used to play a piano by holding a copper wire tightly between his teeth which was connected to the piano , so that he could 'hear' the notes through the vibrations. Pure dedication.
Wow, he is more amazing than I thought. I didn't know he could even play while completely dead, = 0 (please don't edit, that is a funny typo.)
@@noahway13 Actually, he has spent the past 200 years de-composing.
@@isaacsegal2844 O M G. Good one.
@@isaacsegal2844 👍👍👍👍👍
*deaf 💀
This is by far one of the BEST Ted-Ed video essays I've watched, I got chills several times as I was watching throughout! The animation in sync with the music and the amazing narration and storyline (as always), Ted-Ed never fails to impress!!! The facts at the end about it spelling out V in morse code and being used to signal triumph among the allies during the war was SO cool
In classical music all the greats were considered the rebels and eccentric rock stars of their time and their legend lived on for that.
Which brings even more relevance to how influenced by classical music classic rock is
Ooh yes Lisztomania was a thing 😂
I love how the motif was reflected so cleverly and abundantly in the animation while the narration passionately described the accompanying music.
Can we please have More of these?? As a Hip Hop head, I started loving Classical since last year.
You should try rachmaninoffs piano concertos or rachmaninoff in general... he's the greatest of all
If someone would set animation to these, it would get wildly popular again. Music seems to have gotten dumber and simpler with each generation. Now it is just monotone auto-tune.
@@deciph_7563 no he isnt. Beethoven and Bach are better.
@@chickenflavor9880 everyone has a different taste but i think everybody can at least agree that rachs piano concertos are the best in the world
@@deciph_7563 well i havent heard his pcs yet so ill check them out.
As someone who has just recently started listening to classical music, this video is so informative! I now have tools to use to find and understand messages in other pieces as well, and my appreciation for this type of music only grows. Please do more of these!
Listen to hungarian dance no 1 i am sure that you like it is somehow similar to symphony no5
When i first heard this and didnt know its name i searched it up on TH-cam as dun dun dun duuun and to my surprise i did get what i wanted to listen to. Kudos to TH-cam.
Thank you. I’ve lost a lot of my love for classical music in the past years since I’ve entered college and stopped playing the violin, but seeing the music theory and and reliving the beauty of this symphony has brought back many sweet memories of the days that I used to rely on classical music as a source of happiness and calmness. I will certainly be listening to the fully symphony now
Learning what sonata form is and listening to a symphony more than once has actually made me addicted to symphonies. Its so pleasuring an rewarding to notice all the details
The thumbnail is the most epic thing Ive ever seen
@navidski Honestly, the thumbnail is truly quite impressive.
@navidski you need friends
@navidski I wouldn't be friends with an idiote
A very Calm video on why Existential emptiness creates bad parents th-cam.com/video/vdwR6sVRulk/w-d-xo.html
Oddly enough, on that same night the the Fifth made its premiere, was the premiere of the beautiful Sixth, his Pastoral Symphony. The man was a veritable cornucopia of musical ideas.
"One of the most explosive pieces of music ever composed"
Tchaikovsky: *carrying cannons to the stage* We'll see about that...
Composes the 5th while going deaf ands composes the 9th while completely deaf. The man's brilliance and musical genius is outstanding. It's no wonder why his work was included in the collection of humanity's achievements and understanding that was sent out into space
Classical music impresses me a lot. It drives me from one emotion to another. It makes me feel all the emotions, from relaxing, calm feelings to epic ones. Definitely an incredibly beautiful experience.
His 5th is my favorite of his symphonies, though not just due to the powerful motif build (which yes I love) but the uplifting finale of the 4th movement is so indescribably phenomenal. Anybody who's never listened to the full thing certainly should give it a go.
Also if you're interested in his emotional side of it, the 7th symphony has some very painful sounds to his depression of loosing his hearing.
Similar to the events of Beethoven’s life at the time the symphonies were composed his 5th Symphony warns you about the twists and dangers lurking ahead while his 9th Symphony tells you you're going to be alright.
Holy.... The animation, the naration, and the music is very overwhelming. In some parts I felt I was underwater and desperately catching air. This is a masterpiece!
Oh! What a great composer, I bet he must be proud after listening to his own music.
As a die-hard fan of Beethoven, I loved watching this video
I literally had goosebumps from the animation, the sound effects and the narrator's voice. All of it just go so perfectly together that I wonder how the production could do these functions in separation, because it feels so organic and united. This video is such a masterpiece in every way.
Beethoven’s talent is described in such a wonderful way. You never let anything down. Beethoven will be proud from heaven.
4:32 Beethoven being a German: 👁👄👁
oh dear this is my favorite video now..... i am speechless
I love your videos! I work as an English tutor and sometimes I give my students a task to watch your videos. This one is probably the next one for this. As noted by many, the animation is simply captivating and perfectly follows the narrative and the symphony itself. Thank you so much!
Isn't it awesome that you could immediately hear these notes in your head when you saw the thumbnail? That's how great this piece is, that's how great Beethoven is.
The animation and the gripping narrative is amazing you always outdo yourselves
Talk about beginning a video. Damn the goosebumps
the 5th still sounds futuristic, there's just nothing like it. Long live the original grandfather of rock :)
I admire that not only this Ted video lacks even minor mistakes but also that everything is done with great care and precision to a point of an overwhelming manner upon a masterpiece.
I just wanted to say. Beethoven the punk DJ is a masterpiece.
1:04
I like how the video interprets the symphony. "It takes its listeners through a dark world then guides them into the light." BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AND SAID!🙌
Beethoven being dark and gloomy is literally a perfect representation of his music. A lot of his compositions is mostly revolved around dark motifs, like minors, tritones, and such. He's like literally the inverse of Mozart.
Lol
What a great quote in the beginning. Personally, mine would be: "What I have in my heart must never come out. That is why I close it up."
I'm Glad classical music still gets appreciated these days, a Great video as always TED-Ed!
I went through a period years ago of listening to a lot of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic music. After I got a good feeling for Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart I listened to Beethoven and was blown away by the strength of his achievement in the context of those earlier composers. It goes without saying of course they were all incredible but his sound is just so big and it must have been astounding to hear it in the days he made it.
Beethoven's piece makes me wanna save my hearing because i just can't imagine living without music
I had to watch the video twice to properly listen to the narration, since for my first watch I kept humming the music aloud. I guess that's how powerful the Fifth Symphony is.
🌈th-cam.com/video/VkirPoRKohM/w-d-xo.html❣️😇🦋
This dude didnt need to make his music 50% Lyrics and 50% a repeating short melody and rhythm to make 🔥Bangers!
Actually, Beethoven is, 50% a repeating short melody and rhythm, 20% lyric, and 30% actual melody, if you ask.
@@tudorftbl I mean the ninth and his choral works.
@@segmentsAndCurves I mean, to be fair, the “short melodies” are motifs that are expanded upon and played around with to make truly suspending music., and not just mindless 4 chord songs that don’t really that much thought into them
@@Aschuff22 "mindless 4 chord songs"
Yeah yeah yeah, but the timbre is nowhere near modern music.
Acoustic
@@segmentsAndCurves I meant suspenseful, as in like Beethoven’s music really makes you sit on the edge of your seat and really want to know what will come next. Also electric being better than acoustic is 100% subjective. I’d listen to an authentic instrument over any synth or electric guitar or any modern day instrument any day of the week
It always gives me chills.
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I just played this piece at our last concert. It was a certified banger 🎵
The fact that Beethoven is deaf and he still made this masterpiece. He is simply a born genius.
He wasn’t completely deaf yet writing this symphony, if you want to hear when he was completely deaf, try the 9th symphony. (The one with ode to joy).
I love the visuals here. Everything grouped exactly how the motif is formed. The mountains, trees, flowers, balloons, etc. Love it!
And this is why beethoveen is one of the best composers to ever be!
Beautiful video
3:53 - A reference to Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, the posterchild of Romanticism. Nice touch!
I don't know how many Ted-Ed videos I've watched so far; this one made me forget all the others. Not only the animation is amazingly done, but also the narration is mesmerizing. Big up to the whole team who worked on this video.
The music plays when you rush to clean the house before mom gets home. 😂
I remember when my Mom bought a radio to my school that we already have in my house, that radio played cd's, and my Mom already used it in his school (she was a teacher) to play a Beethoven 5th symphony disc, she says it worked with her students to improve their tests, when I listened to that disc I was absorted by the MUSIC, I didn't make a single noise, I was listening, I was too young to remember the conductor or the orchestra, but later I searched the music in TH-cam, later I found all the other classical music pieces that I heard in tv and movies and even watched opera (with subtitles) and found different recordings from the same pieces and now I search recordings and choose the ones I love, I already studied Music and form part of a youth orchestra, but now I'm beginning from zero in another consevartory, now with more seriousness but I always like to investigate about the works and composer's life, other than that I get more into History by having a soundtrack (thanks to Internet), I always have like classical music, even my Mom put classical cd's when she was pregnant, I like all composers and each great work I find, from piano works to OPERA, I know I am the rare in this, and at the time I write this, I'm 17 years old. This is one of the best and convincing explanations of Beethoven's 5th on Internet.
I would consider this video to be a tribute to Beethoven. The thumbnail and the video itself are both first class. Truly a masterpiece.. both the symphony and this video made about it.
The fact that the 5th symphony was used as code for victory during the world wars is super cool
This is such a well-made video! Thank you, Ted-Ed!
I love how the video is as widespread expressive as the symphony itself
The animation just keeps getting better and better! Wow like, this must have taken around 2 weeks! Such effort for just a video!
yes beethoven is a super genius, but let's also appreciate how this video's narration is written so well it perfectly describes the music as it plays. it just goes so well
Love how the animation incorporated the 'fate motif' by showing 3 objects and a 4th slightly bigger than the others!
Beethoven's 5th Symphony is my permanent alarm. It helps me wake up!
If Beethoven was alive today with the numbers of instruments available now. The music industry would be truly more remarkable and exquisite.
The artist just prints what he feels, the audience give them a meaning.
I am always amused by ted ed's animation ❤️
me too
Nobody would ever imagine why I watched the video!
I love the narrator's English accent!
Hey! Come on! The drawings are mysterious and captivating too. Amazing!
Oh my goodness this is just so perfect! The animation, the narration, the content! Everything is just so perfect!!!
1:54 OMG, this part is a MASTERPIECE of music visualization!
This video is so amazing,art and the lesson is so entertaining
The way the narrator speaks is so... powerful
This video really captures an emotional response with their blend of animations, music and narration which truly makes it on itself a masterpiece.
The fact that this composition still bangs is amazing.
3:44 goosebumps!
My dad plays in the orchestra and I heard him called this piece “Grim Reaper’s knocks”. I got a glimpse of what he said back then but now watching this video it makes so much more sense and even got a deeper look into this piece. Thanks Ted-Ed
You guys never fail to find the perfect animation for every emotion you inject into your viewers. Just like beethoven's music
to think that he developed that feeling of music inside him so much that even fate cant allow him to go further and tried stopping him by deafness, but he couldn't be stopped sounds like a drama.