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Never forget that a format war over the size of the compact disc was settled by Sony and Phillips to 74 minutes so that a complete 9th Symphony would fit. So CDs are 120mm in diameter because of the greatest piece of music ever written.
one of the first albums I ever owned was a recording of the 9th. It was terrible. The needle would skip all over the place. I finally decided they had tried to pack too much onto a single record. This was back in the late 60s, so the recording tech was not as robust as now.
It was an excellent choice to size CDs for that reason. Beethoven was and is worth it. Saw his Ninth Symphony staged in Anchorage a few years ago. In the Broadway musical "Bells Are Ringing" a 40s era messaging service is used as an ignorant relaying method by mobsters who want to run books without the cops being able to trce the calls. The crooks think they can use classical recordings as a sort of code but they get in trouble because they are ignorant and one of the horseraces they are taking bets on is coded as 'Beethoven's 10th Symphony'. The innocent women who run the answering service are way more cultured than the crooks and change the message to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Trouble ensues. Good thing it's a comedy.
Already on the bucket list. Me and my dad were going to watch it a few years back, but for one reason or another, we didn't. Thankfully, it was for the best, as we later learned there was a power cut, and the performance was cancelled.
Going to see it in two weeks! Final performance under the conduncting of the current conductor at the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra! Packed house... two weeks and almost every seat is gone.
The best is when the orchestra gets into the music. When you see the violins, the percussion and the entire orchestra move with the music it becomes magic.
I watch it and it was emotional and inspiring to listen to this beloved masterpiece of Beethoven's 9th but the real mystery is the letter to his Immortal Beloved❤
@@quintorezwalker5210 OH, and there is another movie with Liam Neeson as the GREAT BEETHOVEN. Check it out if you get a chance. The Gary Oldman version I feel is the better of the two. Liam and Gary are both great actors. 👍
In my opinion, Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 is the greatest symphony ever written and one of the most memorable pieces of classical music. Every single note from it is perfection. I remember the first time I've listened to the entire symphony. I was truly fascinated by it!
I am always fascinated by how a deaf man made such an awesome, perfect, harmonic, beautiful piece of Music without ever hearing a note of it. All the while I couldn’t even make a simple song even with today’s methods of composing digitally, giving you the ability to listen to your composition instantly and as many times as you want whenever you want… This man was a master of his craft, and he may have been mad, but I think he was mad in a good way.
@alex9920ro I Played violin in school when I was younger 25 years ago. This was one of the songs we learned. I fell in love with it instantly. You are totally correct, it's one of the greatest musical pieces ever composed.
I took a class at university in which the sole objective was to harmonically, thematically and then culturally analyze this piece, before which, I was oblivious to the master work this is. What an eye opener, and you did an amazing job covering so much in a short video!
It's the one symphony I can think of that is immediately recognized by merely its number. When someone says "the ninth", everyone knows they're talking about Beethoven.
I'm in tears, I really am. I was in an awful pessimistic mood, feeling uninspired to work on any art despite the several unfinished works staring me in the face. Until I watched this, and now I really do feel like things ain't so bad. I think I'm gonna go paint now - listening to Beethoven, of course.
In 2008, 16 years ago, I wrote in my e-Journal “May 7, 2024: Attend Beethoven’s grave in Vienna and listen to the Ninth Symphony at his feet on the 200th anniversary of its premiere.” I fulfilled that promise last month, travelling from Australia to Beethoven’s tomb with my iPod. In just the two hours I was there I met three other people, from Portugal, Japan and California, who had come to the grave on that same day for the same reason. Needless to say, there was much weeping, much joy, much embracing on that holy day in that sacred clearing in that Viennese cemetery. When I told Diego from Lisbon that I had actually genuflected to Beethoven, he showed me the wet patch on his right knee where he had done the same! Lifelong bonds formed on that magical day. Beethoven brings humanity together in an embrace of love and joy and gratitude, in the concert hall, beside his grave, everywhere. That same night, May 7, I then heard the Symphony again, this time live, in a staggering performance by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Riccardo Muti. The playing and the singing were at a level I’ve never heard before. A phenomenal day in my life. This video we’ve all enjoyed was such a loving testament to Beethoven and the climax of his whole life’s work. Thank you especially to whoever wrote it. Your words were/are magnificent. Reduced me to tears several times. And a little shout out for that wonderful Andre Rieu joke in there along the way! Brilliant. I was expecting to hear the famous quote by the Russian 19th century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, so since it wasn’t quoted in your wonderful video I’ll finish my rave with it. Bakunin: Everything will pass and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”
And Haydn in over 100. However, both Mozart's and Haydn's symphonies are so extremely repetitive in content that they could easily be reduced to 2 or 3 pieces
I actually performed this piece last year as a bass in the choir section! The choir section of the finale was surprisingly challenging at certain points, but it was really fun to sing as well! This piece is definitely one of Beethoven's greatest for orchestra and choir and one of the greatest pieces ever period. The bass line in this piece is still engrained into my memory and probably will stay that way for a while😅
Other famous finales in Art Music come from the end of Rossini's William Tell Overture, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture, Stravinsky's Firebird, Puccini's Turandot, and Respighi's Pines of Rome.
Someone said to Brahms, that the last movement in his 1st was very similar to Beethovens 9th. Brahms answered: „Jawohl, und noch merkwürdiger ist, daß das jeder Esel gleich hört.“, or "Yes, and what’s even stranger, every donkey hears it straight away." So great was Beethovens influence
I had the honour visit Bonn Germany yesterday and my main objective was to visit the Beethoven’s House Museum. Knowing this is the two hundred anniversary of the first performance of the 9th I was moved to tears when I seen a picture of Leonard Bernstein chipping away at the Berlin Wall and his performance of the Ode to Freedom concert in Berlin. This masterpiece in my humble opinion is the international anthem for all of humanity.
I was part of the Wiener Symphony a few Months ago where we performed this piece at the Wiener Konzerthaus it was truly one of the best things i have excperienced i remmeber after the concert i was sheding tears from joy and from being overwhelemed it was a night i'll never forget !! Hail Bethoveen !!
I’m so excited. I’ve heard for most of my life that The 9th (note capitalization) is the greatest piece ever composed and I love it. But I don’t understand why it’s held as this incredible achievement and I credit that to a lack of understanding and I want to understand.
@nino-vn9xl Mahler's Ninth doesn't have the same weight or recognition as the other ones, though I could see a video on his Eighth, Second or Sixth, which are more recognizable.
Beethoven's 9th Symphony appeared in Little Einsteins: Our Huge Adventure (which then split into A Brand New Outfit and The MIssing Invitation). He was also known for his Works for Halloween: Including his 5th Symphony in C Minor (with its 4- note motif), Moonlight Sonata, Appassioanta Sonata, Egmont (with its Dark Overture), For Earth Day" 6th Symhony in F Major "Pastoral", and For Christmas" Fur Elise. He also wrote only one opera: Fidelio.
The way you put music into words makes me shake in emotion, like I want to cry but I'm so glad because I can describe what I feel with the music that I laugh and smile, thank you
🇪🇺 Joy, bright spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, Fire-inspired we tread Within thy sanctuary. Magic power re-unites All that custom has divided, All men become brothers, Under the sway of thy gentle wings! 🇪🇺
My friend, this is the first time I have felt obligated to respond to any video. The showing moved me, the script was perfect and the video was made to enthral the viewer. Keep going, you have earned a dedicated supporter!
Ode to ode to joy (set to the music of Beethoven 9) Glory unto Beethoven who fell not to insanity, Conqueror of nihilism, lover of humanity. Live forever, great composer, in the hearts of millions, May your music reach the stars and be praised for eternity! You have mastered every musical technique in existence, And you invented multiple new ones in your brilliance. Your counterpoint is the point, and oh those wonderful contrasts: All accomplished while you were deaf-what inspiring persistence! Oh how fate has tormented you; oh how hard you must have fought. You could not hear as the people did thunderously applaud. Loved forever, Christlike figure, as long as mankind exists. Your suffering has raised mankind up to hear the voice of God!
My grandpa, who sang in the chorus of the Minicipal Theatre of Rio, always told me that at first it was Freedom instead of Joy, in german Freiheit instead of Freude, but he changed it to Freude in order not to sound too political and displease the authorities of the time.
It was originally “Freude” but Leonard Bernstein changed it to “Freiheit” for a performance after the fall of the Berlin wall during Christmas of 1989 (not implying that you didn’t know this btw). I got this info from wikipedia just to clarify.
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@@JustarandomaccountInnit-is8lf I actually didn't know the 1989 bit. Definately adding to my historic notes. 😊
My mother was born into a very poor family of shepherds and farmers. She moved from the country to the city and found a position as a servant girl, and she worked in a few homes of well off, educated people. There she was exposed to things she and her family had never dreamed of, and one of those things was classical music. I can only imagine her reaction when she first heard Beethoven's 5th, which she so loved for its mad vigour and strength. I think my love for heavy metal comes from the same place as her love for bad ass classics. And I have to say the 9th is one of my favourite classical pieces, because it can be both bad ass and incredibly melodic and sorrowful. My mother has developed dementia and a compound of multiple other neurological conditions, which robbed her of herself and most of her joy and awareness. I need to insist that she listen to more of the music she so loved when she was healthy. And Beethoven is at the top of the list.
Thank you for making content that so perfectly captures what’s compelling about classical music in such a fun, accessible way! This is the stuff that’ll keep this music alive
This year is the bicentennial of the 9th!! You can't imagine how long I have been waiting for this video, and you didn't disappoint. You hit most of the points that I think mattered. (honorable mention for Beethoven's "faithful secretary"; it's a bit more amusing when you're aware of Anton Schindler and all the lies he told about Beethoven XD) I swear this is one of my favorite symphonies, no, PIECES ever.
Your Beethoven reminds me of recently deceased Seiji Ozawa: Energetic, capricious, always out of the box and... well, with disheveled silver hair of course. 😂 RIP Maestro
oh dang, i've been listening it many times but I'm so dumb that i didn't realize the first three mvmt fragments are included in the 4th mvmt opening. that seriously gave me chills my classics explained video #1 goes to this.
The story behind the 9th is really inspiring. The music exudes perseverance and optimism in spite of all of his personal hardships. It's very human indeed. Btw this channel is very underrated
Man oh man. What a video! The visuals, the narration, the apt usage of music snippets, and of course, the immense respect you pay to this wondrous symphony, all of them were simply perfect. I don't think it'll ever be possible to talk about this symphony on TH-cam or any other visual media in a way that'd surpass yours. God you made me almost cry with the exhilaration of your narration! Wonderful! Bravo!
Funnily enough, Beethoven was said to consider then-unknown J.S. Bach as a master composer, even making an elevating joke that went along the lines of 'J.S. Bach's name should not be broke but sea!' (highlighting the paradox of Bach (which translates to broke in German) and his legit sea of compositions for practically every occasion). Having a video about J.S. Bach would be amazing.
I made a playlist that is just Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 played by different orchestras, different conductors. Every time someone asked me what my favourite song is, I always said it is Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. It's a masterpiece beyond comprehension.
To me, this piece of his truly trascends time and place. Its music is universal. It breaks every barrier that exists. Something anyone can truly accept and understand (intrepret). Social components, like religions, status, genders, it even transcends beyond that. It isnt exclusive to any of those components. Its truly for the whole world to hear.
@@smokefan4000count me in! With both their use of classical music, I'm surprised they haven't had a crossover yet. LE was even distributed internationally, so there is a Japanese dub of it. Think of the possibilities: the Little Einsteins helping Shinji, him being congratulated with the curtain call, the sentient instruments playing with him and his cello, Rocket and Big Jet having A.T. Fields, and so much more! Wait... In Little Einsteins, there are sentient instruments roaming the world. Heck, they can even produce offspring. Perhaps this is the true end goal of the Human *Instrumentality* Project? 0_0
I've heard the Ode to Joy theme is omnipresent in Japan, constantly parodied in songs and TV commercials. For them, it is a musical metonym for the West.
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Download Apple Music Classical, the streaming service for classical music to discover more about Ludwig van Beethoven. Click the link on the description.
Never forget that a format war over the size of the compact disc was settled by Sony and Phillips to 74 minutes so that a complete 9th Symphony would fit. So CDs are 120mm in diameter because of the greatest piece of music ever written.
Yes! Was desperate to get that fact in there but didn’t know how without disrupting the flow so thank you for saying it for me!
@@ClassicsExplained And also the conductor was Furtwangler, perhaps the greatest conductor of Beethoven except Beethoven himself ❤
Yes the Furtwangler recordings are spine-tingling. The early ones very eerie given the political background
one of the first albums I ever owned was a recording of the 9th. It was terrible. The needle would skip all over the place. I finally decided they had tried to pack too much onto a single record. This was back in the late 60s, so the recording tech was not as robust as now.
It was an excellent choice to size CDs for that reason. Beethoven was and is worth it. Saw his Ninth Symphony staged in Anchorage a few years ago.
In the Broadway musical "Bells Are Ringing" a 40s era messaging service is used as an ignorant relaying method by mobsters who want to run books without the cops being able to trce the calls. The crooks think they can use classical recordings as a sort of code but they get in trouble because they are ignorant and one of the horseraces they are taking bets on is coded as 'Beethoven's 10th Symphony'. The innocent women who run the answering service are way more cultured than the crooks and change the message to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Trouble ensues. Good thing it's a comedy.
For anyone who hasn't, make sure to bucket list at least one live concert of the Beethoven 9th in your life.
Or sing it! Just did that (complete train wreck of a reading, but that's ok!)
Already on the bucket list. Me and my dad were going to watch it a few years back, but for one reason or another, we didn't. Thankfully, it was for the best, as we later learned there was a power cut, and the performance was cancelled.
my cities symphony performed it recently lol it was epic
I can beat that. The 1812 overture played by the mass bands of the British army and GUNS of the Royal artillery. Saw that when I was 7 or 8.
Going to see it in two weeks! Final performance under the conduncting of the current conductor at the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra! Packed house... two weeks and almost every seat is gone.
The best is when the orchestra gets into the music. When you see the violins, the percussion and the entire orchestra move with the music it becomes magic.
Wagner singing the bass parts of Symphony no 9 was something I did not know I needed until now
This is not a joke. Your video made me cry.
Me too, bro. Good music be like that.
Damn! It made cry as well.
Same 😭
It made me cry too
Same
The 9th will always remind me of that glorious scene from Immortal Beloved
I watch it and it was emotional and inspiring to listen to this beloved masterpiece of Beethoven's 9th but the real mystery is the letter to his Immortal Beloved❤
Gary Oldman became Beethoven. What a great movie.
@@halbos7637 I watched for the first time and I really like Oldman's performance and his extraordinary role as Beethoven
@@quintorezwalker5210 OH, and there is another movie with Liam Neeson as the GREAT BEETHOVEN. Check it out if you get a chance. The Gary Oldman version I feel is the better of the two. Liam and Gary are both great actors. 👍
@@halbos7637 I see what I can do. And mostly thanks.
In my opinion, Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 is the greatest symphony ever written and one of the most memorable pieces of classical music. Every single note from it is perfection. I remember the first time I've listened to the entire symphony. I was truly fascinated by it!
and recognized as such accross cultures and times. I think that's the closest music ever got to sheer emotion !
It’s one of the greatest creations of the human mind. Period.
I am always fascinated by how a deaf man made such an awesome, perfect, harmonic, beautiful piece of Music without ever hearing a note of it. All the while I couldn’t even make a simple song even with today’s methods of composing digitally, giving you the ability to listen to your composition instantly and as many times as you want whenever you want… This man was a master of his craft, and he may have been mad, but I think he was mad in a good way.
@alex9920ro I Played violin in school when I was younger 25 years ago. This was one of the songs we learned. I fell in love with it instantly. You are totally correct, it's one of the greatest musical pieces ever composed.
I took a class at university in which the sole objective was to harmonically, thematically and then culturally analyze this piece, before which, I was oblivious to the master work this is. What an eye opener, and you did an amazing job covering so much in a short video!
that must have been a wonderful class. I'm jealous.
@@sifridbassoonNot me.
Oooh what’s I called?
Such a beautiful piece. Beethoven will never be forgotten for being one of the many founding fathers of classical and romantic music.
Beethoven was WAY past the founding of Classical music. Haydn started it, but Beethoven finished it
So very "Beautiful"🎉
One of the greatest compositions of all time - still sends shivers down my spine every time
It's the one symphony I can think of that is immediately recognized by merely its number. When someone says "the ninth", everyone knows they're talking about Beethoven.
I think the 5th can also be said to be recognized by number
That also applies to his 5th symphony
I'm in tears, I really am. I was in an awful pessimistic mood, feeling uninspired to work on any art despite the several unfinished works staring me in the face. Until I watched this, and now I really do feel like things ain't so bad. I think I'm gonna go paint now - listening to Beethoven, of course.
Wow! Delighted to have lifted your spirits - what would make our day is if you could share your reaction painting with us :))
THANK YOU for helping me understand what I love. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
It's happening!!! It's finallly happening!!!
The most awaited video of the whole series!!!
The classic of Classics!!
the pinnacle of tonal music
Che, vos comentas en el canal de Filosofía de película?
@@QuantumMag-u1l si así es. Soy seguidor de huesos amarillos
@@supergastonh Jajaja mirá donde te vengo a encontrar, ví tu foto de perfil y me parecía conocida
In 2008, 16 years ago, I wrote in my e-Journal “May 7, 2024: Attend Beethoven’s grave in Vienna and listen to the Ninth Symphony at his feet on the 200th anniversary of its premiere.” I fulfilled that promise last month, travelling from Australia to Beethoven’s tomb with my iPod. In just the two hours I was there I met three other people, from Portugal, Japan and California, who had come to the grave on that same day for the same reason. Needless to say, there was much weeping, much joy, much embracing on that holy day in that sacred clearing in that Viennese cemetery. When I told Diego from Lisbon that I had actually genuflected to Beethoven, he showed me the wet patch on his right knee where he had done the same! Lifelong bonds formed on that magical day. Beethoven brings humanity together in an embrace of love and joy and gratitude, in the concert hall, beside his grave, everywhere. That same night, May 7, I then heard the Symphony again, this time live, in a staggering performance by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Riccardo Muti. The playing and the singing were at a level I’ve never heard before. A phenomenal day in my life. This video we’ve all enjoyed was such a loving testament to Beethoven and the climax of his whole life’s work. Thank you especially to whoever wrote it. Your words were/are magnificent. Reduced me to tears several times. And a little shout out for that wonderful Andre Rieu joke in there along the way! Brilliant. I was expecting to hear the famous quote by the Russian 19th century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, so since it wasn’t quoted in your wonderful video I’ll finish my rave with it. Bakunin: Everything will pass and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.”
Thank you for sharing this with us ☺
@@nathalieplum2137Thank you for your lovely comment. Appreciated.
Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner and Mahler: Wrote only 9 symphonies, and died.
Mozart: Laughs in over 40 symphonies.
and then we have Haydn...
And Haydn in over 100.
However, both Mozart's and Haydn's symphonies are so extremely repetitive in content that they could easily be reduced to 2 or 3 pieces
You beat me to it lol
@@Henri.d.Olivoiryes, thank you for saying this! Quantity does not mean quality
@@cherillinabeel9028 Exactly, you're very wise!
The CD Rom can contain 74 minutes of music because the big music companies decided they had to fit the 9th in its entirety.
What a great fact!
The image of Beethoven in KISS corpse paint will never leave me now. Bravo, good sir
Before there was Gene Simmons there was Ludwig van Beethoven the original rock and roll bad boy. 😊
Don't even mention the Anime Beethoven. XD
I actually performed this piece last year as a bass in the choir section! The choir section of the finale was surprisingly challenging at certain points, but it was really fun to sing as well! This piece is definitely one of Beethoven's greatest for orchestra and choir and one of the greatest pieces ever period. The bass line in this piece is still engrained into my memory and probably will stay that way for a while😅
Other famous finales in Art Music come from the end of Rossini's William Tell Overture, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture, Stravinsky's Firebird, Puccini's Turandot, and Respighi's Pines of Rome.
Someone said to Brahms, that the last movement in his 1st was very similar to Beethovens 9th. Brahms answered: „Jawohl, und noch merkwürdiger ist, daß das jeder Esel gleich hört.“, or "Yes, and what’s even stranger, every donkey hears it straight away."
So great was Beethovens influence
Sounds like something brahms would say
I believe hands down that the slow Ihr stürzt nieder Millionen section in the middle of the finale is the best proof for the existence of God.
TOTALLY agree!!
“VOOORRRR GOOOOOTTTT”
Even if someone doesn’t speak German, they know EXACTLY what he’s talking about!
I had the honour visit Bonn Germany yesterday and my main objective was to visit the Beethoven’s House Museum. Knowing this is the two hundred anniversary of the first performance of the 9th I was moved to tears when I seen a picture of Leonard Bernstein chipping away at the Berlin Wall and his performance of the Ode to Freedom concert in Berlin. This masterpiece in my humble opinion is the international anthem for all of humanity.
i cant even lie i am crying right now, this symphony is why i still believe in humanity !
i also wanna give Beeth a hug cause goddamn
I was part of the Wiener Symphony a few Months ago where we performed this piece at the Wiener Konzerthaus it was truly one of the best things i have excperienced i remmeber after the concert i was sheding tears from joy and from being overwhelemed it was a night i'll never forget !! Hail Bethoveen !!
This is the only song that just makes me weep every time because it's so beautiful. Thank you Beethoven for this gift from 200 years ago!
Cats: 9 lives
Composers: 9 symphonies
This is begging to be PBS Kids show!
If you guys ink a deal after reading this, I only ask a fair 10%! Fantastic style!
Sadly something this Pro European won't be allowed.
Yes they will
This shows that even when you become disabled, you can still do amazing things!
Beethoven proved that with this symphony!
Absolutely marvelous gem of a video. My immortal beloved composer lives with his sublime music. 🩷
The voice of the narrator captures me ❤ I could listen to him all day long explaining me the world
When I clicked on this video, I didn't expect a well animated and funny lesson on Beethoven's life. Great Video!
Check out the rest of the channel!
Great time to upload on the 200th anniversary of the 9th Symphony
Woahhhh this video is an actual artpiece. Honestly, so much hope & bittersweetness. Deserving for the GOAT Beethoven.
I can’t stop rewatching this video, it’s just perfect, just like the 9th symphony
I’ve always absolutely loved his 9th symphony. After watching this video I love it even more. Thank you for this video.
This channel is a gem thank you
This is, simply put, the best thing I have seen on TH-cam.
I heard on the radio today that today is the 200th anniversary of the ninth. Now I know the story.
These important, lovely pieces get more and more riveting and extensive, it's hard not to be enamored anew over and over again with each new feature.
I hate the political exploitation of this Symphony especially from the EU but other than that it is a masterpiece
Perfect! Will share this in my college music appreciation class as we are finishing but an exploration of Beethoven!!!
Waouh ! Excellent share !! Big like from Canada !!
Your characterization and visualization of music makes me cry,is very special and amazing to me❤
I’m so excited. I’ve heard for most of my life that The 9th (note capitalization) is the greatest piece ever composed and I love it. But I don’t understand why it’s held as this incredible achievement and I credit that to a lack of understanding and I want to understand.
Now be waitin for the other great ninths. Dvořák, Schubert and Bruckner
Mahler:)
@nino-vn9xl Mahler's Ninth doesn't have the same weight or recognition as the other ones, though I could see a video on his Eighth, Second or Sixth, which are more recognizable.
Correction: They already did Dvořák's Ninth
But we absolutely need Dvorak's 7th !!!😂😂😂@@luisfelipegoncalves4977
Oops wrong emoji
Beethoven's 9th Symphony appeared in Little Einsteins: Our Huge Adventure (which then split into A Brand New Outfit and The MIssing Invitation). He was also known for his Works for Halloween: Including his 5th Symphony in C Minor (with its 4- note motif), Moonlight Sonata, Appassioanta Sonata, Egmont (with its Dark Overture), For Earth Day" 6th Symhony in F Major "Pastoral", and For Christmas" Fur Elise. He also wrote only one opera: Fidelio.
Thank you for this perspective. I knew the basic picture of Beethoven, but you let me see a little of his soul and brought him to life. Thank you.
Teared up a little bit, this was always one of my favorites of Beethoven's, and the story behind it make it so much greater!!
The way you put music into words makes me shake in emotion, like I want to cry but I'm so glad because I can describe what I feel with the music that I laugh and smile, thank you
Amazing work
What a beautiful TH-cam channel
I'll wait patiently to see one of my favorite parts
Schubert's Trout
🇪🇺 Joy, bright spark of divinity,
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire-inspired we tread
Within thy sanctuary.
Magic power re-unites
All that custom has divided,
All men become brothers,
Under the sway of thy gentle wings! 🇪🇺
Inspiring words that all should live by honestly
This is such an increadible explanation... thank you, and congratulation
Best rendition to commemorate the 200th year of the premiere of the immortal Choral Symphony. 😃
I think it’s a really nice touch to have all the other composers appearing in the video to point out the influence of Beethoven on others.
My friend, this is the first time I have felt obligated to respond to any video.
The showing moved me, the script was perfect and the video was made to enthral the viewer.
Keep going, you have earned a dedicated supporter!
We appreciate it. Thank you
Ode to ode to joy (set to the music of Beethoven 9)
Glory unto Beethoven who fell not to insanity,
Conqueror of nihilism, lover of humanity.
Live forever, great composer, in the hearts of millions,
May your music reach the stars and be praised for eternity!
You have mastered every musical technique in existence,
And you invented multiple new ones in your brilliance.
Your counterpoint is the point, and oh those wonderful contrasts:
All accomplished while you were deaf-what inspiring persistence!
Oh how fate has tormented you; oh how hard you must have fought.
You could not hear as the people did thunderously applaud.
Loved forever, Christlike figure, as long as mankind exists.
Your suffering has raised mankind up to hear the voice of God!
Amen
Wtf is this lmao
My grandpa, who sang in the chorus of the Minicipal Theatre of Rio, always told me that at first it was Freedom instead of Joy, in german Freiheit instead of Freude, but he changed it to Freude in order not to sound too political and displease the authorities of the time.
It was originally “Freude” but Leonard Bernstein changed it to “Freiheit” for a performance after the fall of the Berlin wall during Christmas of 1989 (not implying that you didn’t know this btw). I got this info from wikipedia just to clarify.
@@JustarandomaccountInnit-is8lf I actually didn't know the 1989 bit. Definately adding to my historic notes. 😊
DAMN, these videos are great, cant express how happy I am to find this chanel!
Thank you!
My mother was born into a very poor family of shepherds and farmers. She moved from the country to the city and found a position as a servant girl, and she worked in a few homes of well off, educated people. There she was exposed to things she and her family had never dreamed of, and one of those things was classical music. I can only imagine her reaction when she first heard Beethoven's 5th, which she so loved for its mad vigour and strength.
I think my love for heavy metal comes from the same place as her love for bad ass classics. And I have to say the 9th is one of my favourite classical pieces, because it can be both bad ass and incredibly melodic and sorrowful.
My mother has developed dementia and a compound of multiple other neurological conditions, which robbed her of herself and most of her joy and awareness. I need to insist that she listen to more of the music she so loved when she was healthy. And Beethoven is at the top of the list.
Thank you for making content that so perfectly captures what’s compelling about classical music in such a fun, accessible way! This is the stuff that’ll keep this music alive
Happy 200th year anniversary of this masterpiece !!!!
Thank you SO much for this amazing video, I loved every second of it
What a marvelously rich tribute to this masterpiece. Thank you and blessings. 🙏❤️
This year is the bicentennial of the 9th!! You can't imagine how long I have been waiting for this video, and you didn't disappoint. You hit most of the points that I think mattered. (honorable mention for Beethoven's "faithful secretary"; it's a bit more amusing when you're aware of Anton Schindler and all the lies he told about Beethoven XD) I swear this is one of my favorite symphonies, no, PIECES ever.
Thank you for doing these amazing videos
Your Beethoven reminds me of recently deceased Seiji Ozawa: Energetic, capricious, always out of the box and... well, with disheveled silver hair of course. 😂 RIP Maestro
This is a great and entertaining summary of the symphony. Thank you!
oh dang, i've been listening it many times but I'm so dumb that i didn't realize the first three mvmt fragments are included in the 4th mvmt opening. that seriously gave me chills
my classics explained video #1 goes to this.
Ode to Joy has been used in the hymn, Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee.
Freude, schöner Götterfunken
Töchter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken
Himmlischer, dein Heiligtum🥳
Another absolute BANGER of a video
this is your best video yet. Can't wait for more.
thank you! what a great way to start my saturday. i think ill listen to 9th otw to work
What an incredible channel this is. Thank you.
The story behind the 9th is really inspiring. The music exudes perseverance and optimism in spite of all of his personal hardships. It's very human indeed.
Btw this channel is very underrated
For some reason this video was very moving to me, I can't put my finger on how
Man oh man. What a video! The visuals, the narration, the apt usage of music snippets, and of course, the immense respect you pay to this wondrous symphony, all of them were simply perfect. I don't think it'll ever be possible to talk about this symphony on TH-cam or any other visual media in a way that'd surpass yours. God you made me almost cry with the exhilaration of your narration! Wonderful! Bravo!
Funnily enough, Beethoven was said to consider then-unknown J.S. Bach as a master composer, even making an elevating joke that went along the lines of 'J.S. Bach's name should not be broke but sea!' (highlighting the paradox of Bach (which translates to broke in German) and his legit sea of compositions for practically every occasion).
Having a video about J.S. Bach would be amazing.
This is be best video on classical music I have ever seen.
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I made a playlist that is just Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 played by different orchestras, different conductors. Every time someone asked me what my favourite song is, I always said it is Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. It's a masterpiece beyond comprehension.
Drop the playlist
I did the same thing but with vinyl recordings of the 9th back in the 70s.
To me, this piece of his truly trascends time and place. Its music is universal. It breaks every barrier that exists. Something anyone can truly accept and understand (intrepret). Social components, like religions, status, genders, it even transcends beyond that. It isnt exclusive to any of those components. Its truly for the whole world to hear.
Well done. Great video. In my mind this symphony is the pinnacle of music. You did it justice.
Using in my Elementary Music Class to introduce the Romantic Period from now on. Thank you.
We need a video on Tchaikovsky's Pathétique next
We also need a video about Stravinsky's Firebird Suite afterwards.
The animation and narration are excellent !
Ode to joy was also the anthem of Rhodesia
Yassss. Its finally here!! 😢👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Finally!!! Thank you classics explained
Ode to Joy was featured in the 1988 film Die Hard
I am so bringing popcorn to the next performance I attend!
Good job with your wonderful animations mate!! :3 👍🌸💖🎼🎻
deeply loved. Ditto Cried like a baby omg! ❤❤❤
Standing before the masters grave in the zentralfriedhof in vienna blew me away
HAPPY 200TH ANNIVERSARY 🎉
Such a famous composition by Beethoven. I particularly love its use in Little Einsteins and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Now that's a crossover I didn't know I wanted to see
@@smokefan4000count me in! With both their use of classical music, I'm surprised they haven't had a crossover yet. LE was even distributed internationally, so there is a Japanese dub of it.
Think of the possibilities: the Little Einsteins helping Shinji, him being congratulated with the curtain call, the sentient instruments playing with him and his cello, Rocket and Big Jet having A.T. Fields, and so much more!
Wait...
In Little Einsteins, there are sentient instruments roaming the world. Heck, they can even produce offspring. Perhaps this is the true end goal of the Human *Instrumentality* Project? 0_0
I've heard the Ode to Joy theme is omnipresent in Japan, constantly parodied in songs and TV commercials. For them, it is a musical metonym for the West.
Your video is a masterpiece!
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Yesss,My Ludwig is finally here!!!!🎉
Man you are something else you earned a subscriber.
Your videos are so enlightenmenting. Thank you so much for making these.