The words of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (The Choral) were taken from which poem by Friedrich Schiller?
Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) a symphony (thus making it a choral symphony). The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the "Ode to Joy", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with text additions made by the composer. In 2001, Beethoven's original, hand-written manuscript of the score, held by the Berlin State Library, was added to the United Nations Memory of the World Programme Heritage list, becoming the first musical score so designated. The Philharmonic Society of London originally commissioned the symphony in 1817. The main composition work
Choral symphony the contributions of a narrator, a chorus and an orchestra. Rachmaninoff's choral symphony "The Bells" reflected the four-part progression from youth to marriage, maturity, and death in Poe's poem. Britten reversed the pattern for his "Spring Symphony"—the four sections of the symphony represent, in its composer's words, "the progress of Winter to Spring and the reawakening of the earth and life which that means... It is in the traditional four movement shape of a symphony, but with the movements divided into shorter sections bound together by a similar mood or point of view." The gestation of Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, "Babi