Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is famous for its setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem ‘Ode to Joy’ – a text the composer had been fascinated with for over twenty years. Here’s just a short passage below.

I prefer the listener to think back to it once the entire symphony is over. Beethoven wants to move on – ‘Nicht diese Töne!’. You feel the pain and violence, almost physically, of that opening chord.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the BSO during a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. (Courtesy Hilary Scott) Their angelic voices were back in full force, joined by four soloists, ...

Philadelphia Orchestra has — at least this season — the Beethoven Symphony No. 9, intriguingly programmed with Florence Price, whose music appeared a century later and an ocean apart.

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most well-known poem by Friedrich Schiller, ...

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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - The Nielsen Chorale warms up their voices Monday evening for an epic season finale. At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra (RSO) will perform ...

WATERVILLE — The Colby-Kennebec Choral Society invites all interested singers to join it for performances of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9. Starting on Tuesday, Feb. 13, rehearsals are ...

The Vancouver Symphony will close out its 45th season with gusto by performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 this weekend at Skyview Concert Hall. In addition to a very large orchestral ensemble ...

Beethoven's beloved Symphony No. 9 has found itself at the center of controversy in South Korea in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Korean-language version of Beethoven's masterpiece was ...

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has a new music director, Perry So, who’s conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Sept. 22 at Yale’s Woolsey Hall.

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them.