Why is beethovens ninth symphony special

One bright chap insisted that one CD ought to have the capacity to contain a complete performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The duration ranges from about 65 to 74 minutes which requires a 12 cm diameter, the size of a CD. Beethoven was a compositional rebel , rejecting standard classical practices in order to write with emotion.

While many of his contemporaries were disgusted, if not intimidated by this, his influence on composers to come after him, like Brahms, Dvorak, and Mahler, shows how important a figure he was. Emil Richardson September 10, at AM No other piece plumbs the depths of feeling and emotions.

Emil richardson September 10, at AM Awe inspiring and chest and gut wrenching, all at once. Yes, please! Tryon St. See more Beethoven Album Reviews. See more Beethoven Guides. Beethoven News See more Beethoven News. Beethoven Music See more Beethoven Music. Beethoven Pictures See more Beethoven Pictures.

Completely puerile! So the question is: given that the Ninth Symphony belongs to the whole world, and is now the sum total of all of these imaginings over the last years, and its myriad performances and interpretations, what actually is it? There are many valiant attempts out there to show how the piece ties the room together, to tame its disturbing discontinuities and diversities by hearing it as a steady revelation of the Ode to Joy theme.

That defining tune is indeed consistently prefigured in all three of the previous movements, and you can hear the finale as the logical end-point of this process. That world symbolically includes geographical and ethnic diversities just as it encompasses the secular and sacred, in the Turkish music that interrupts the finale and with which the whole symphony noisily, joyously, overwhelmingly ends; as well as its virtuosic counterpoint, its sensuous polyphony and its cantata-like — but terrifyingly challenging - choral writing.

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