![]() ![]() The Ninth is a victory symphony, moving from D minor to D major.“ The Ninth Symphony has become an unsurpassable model of affirmative culture, embodying as it does a mythic narrative that depicts inescapable problems of modern life and envisages a potential solution.” (Kindermann).“ The Ninth Symphony, of all Beethoven’s works, has had the broadest impact and the widest range of interpretations.” (Lockwood).“ Beethoven’s friends had a hard time persuading him not to send it back.” (Lockwood) Beethoven sent the king a handsome copy of the score and, in recognition, received a diamond ring back. ![]() Score published in 1826, with a dedication to King Friederich Wilhelm of Prussia.“ The introduction of text and voices into a symphony was widely felt to violate the spirit of ‘absolute music.’” (Webster) ![]()
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