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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony







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adriana lecouvreur

aida

aroldo

ballo in maschera

battaglia di legnano

la boh鑝e

carmen

cavalleria rusticana

contes d'hoffmann

don carlo

fanciulla del west

fedora

la forza del destino

idomeneo

madama butterfly

manon lescaut

oberto

otello

pagliacci

parsifal

queen of spades

samson et dalila

simon boccanegra

stiffelio

symphony no.9

il tabarro

tosca

la traviata

turandot

verdi requiem

die walk黵e



plus

synopses/libretti

some lyrics

Verdiana!

Pucciniana!

Tenorissimo!



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                              BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY



                 Friedrich von Schiller's Ode to Joy in Beethoven's setting for 

four soloists, chorus

                 and orchestra has taken on a special meaning as a fanfare for 

peace, tolerance and

                 liberty all over the world.



                 Beethoven's drafts for his opus 125 - the last in the cycle of 

symphonies - date back

                 to the year 1815 or 1816. For decades he had been wanting to 

set Schiller's hymn to

                 music, but it was only after the first three movements of the 

9th Symphony were

                 almost completed that he decided to compose a choral finale 

for the last movement

                 based on parts of the poem.



                 In the conventions of the 1820s it was nothing less than 

revolutionary to end a

                 symphony in this manner - and at just over an hour the work 

was also unusually

                 long. At its first performance, in Vienna on May 7, 1824, the 

audience was typically

                 enthusiastic, while the critics, as so often before, found the 

composer's unique

                 ideas too novel and daring.



                 Beethoven himself could not hear the clamour and the shouts of 

'Bravo', as he was

                 completely deaf by this time.



                  



                 AN DIE FREUDE - ODE TO JOY



                 O Freunde, nicht diese Té°Še!

                 Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen

                 und freudenvollere!



                 Freude, sch鰊er G鰐terfunken,

                 Tochter aus Elysium,

                 Wir betreten feuertrunken.

                 Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

                 Deine Zauber binden wieder

                 Was die Mode streng geteilt;

                 Alle Menschen werden Br黡er

                 Wo dein sanfter Fl黦el weilt.



                 Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen

                 Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,

                 Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,

                 Mische seinen Jubel ein!

                 Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele

                 Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!

                 Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle

                 Weinend sich aus diesem Bund.



                 Freude trinken alle Wesen

                 An den Br黶ten der Natur;

                 Alle Guten, alle B鰏en,

                 Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.

                 K黶se gab sie uns und Reben,

                 Einen Freund, gepr黤t im Tod;

                 Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,

                 Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!



                 Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen

                 Durch des Himmels pr鋍ht'gen Plan,

                 Laufet, Br黡er, eure Bahn,

                 Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.



                 Seid umschlungen, Millionen.

                 Dieser Kuss der ganzen Welt!

                 Br黡er! 躡er'm Sternenzelt

                 Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.

                 Ihr st黵zt nieder, Millionen?

                 Ahnest du den Sché°Œfer, Welt?

                 Such ihn 黚er'm Sternenzelt!

                 躡er Sternen muss er wohnen.



                 (the four-line verse is the 'alla marcia' section: the tenor 

solo)



                  



                                                                                

  text anne lawson









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