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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 it's 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.
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