Happy Labor Day! Almost everybody is familiar with the Ode To Joy theme from the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - right? But how many people, other than musicologists, are familiar with exactly how that monumental movement is constructed? What makes masterpieces of music great is not the melody itself. The French children's song, Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, is a very memorable melody...but look what Mozart did with it! Likewise, Beethoven writes a very memorable theme, set to Schiller's famous poem, and forges one of the greatest symphonic movements in the entire Western European music tradition. Once you have listened to this episode, the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will take on a whole new light (and a whole new "Freude," as Beethoven would say)!
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