The Ninth Symphony is the pinnacle of Beethoven's music creation and the greatest work in the history of music. It is the summary of all his thoughts and the crystallization of his emotions. Mr. Feng Zikai, a famous Chinese scholar, called it: "The greatest masterpiece in the world." This symphony is grand in conception and powerful in nature. It is a symphony that includes the origin, survival, struggle, development, and growth of life to overcome all difficulties and hardships; the evolution and formation of human beings, the development of human society, and the complete liberation of human society to achieve an equality. The magnificent epic of the ideal world of freedom, fraternity, joy and sanctity is the sum of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and Marx's "Das Kapital".

The whole piece consists of four movements. In the work, in order to express his thoughts more clearly and profoundly, and to speak to all mankind, Beethoven boldly broke the traditional form of the symphony and added It incorporates the chorus of human voices, so the work is also called a "choral symphony". It is also the first symphony in the history of music to include a chorus.

The first movement: The music starts with pianissimo and vibrato, presenting a distant, hazy, calm, primitive ancient scene, but at the same time calm, it also makes people feel a sense of power. The restlessness is stirring, and I feel that the calmness is pregnant with an unprecedented life. Then the music gradually developed from weak to strong, from steady, low, and hazy to bright, vigorous, distinct rhythm, and shocking. It shows that in nature in ancient times, life grew from scratch, from low to high, from weak to strong, and developed irresistibly. This process also includes the formation, survival and development of human beings, and their tenacious struggle with the extremely dangerous nature. In the struggle, human beings become stronger. The emergence of human beings is sacred and inevitable, and they will surely become the masters of nature. The connotation of the first movement is just like a condensed version of Darwin's "The Origin of Species".

The second movement: expresses the vigorous development of mankind after overcoming numerous hardships and hardships. The wheel of progress is unstoppable. This is a historical necessity. The vigorous development of human society in the initial stage was after defeating nature. And human society constantly appears new contradictions in its own development. The struggle between human beings and the ugly things in their own existence has become increasingly prominent. This struggle against themselves is different from the struggle against nature and is more complex. Beethoven firmly believed that human beings would eventually overcome their own ugliness. The second movement ends with the firm belief that light will prevail.

The third movement shows that people are immersed in philosophical thinking and at the same time immersed in historical review and summary. We sincerely recall and miss our ancestors who shed their last drop of blood for the progress, development and liberation of mankind. In this process of thinking and recalling, reviewing and summarizing, people look forward to the future, encourage each other, gather new strength, and prepare to carry out the most effective struggle for the new struggle, for the complete liberation of all mankind, and for the attainment of divine joy and happiness. A meaningful struggle. The music before the end of the third movement foreshadows the stormy changes to come.

At the beginning of the fourth movement, the music is like a volcanic eruption, showing huge energy and breaking through all shackles. The power accumulated by mankind over a long period of time explodes, and change is overwhelming, destroying all feudal and ugly things. Change creates favorable conditions for the progress and development of human society. The music follows fragments that repeat the themes of the first three movements, but are broken up by melodies that represent the human desire for freedom and joy. It seems to be saying: Don’t use these old things, innovate and move forward. After intense and thorough preparation. Finally, the long-awaited theme of "Ode to Joy" appeared, symbolizing that after hard struggle, mankind has finally found the way to freedom and joy. The theme of "Ode to Joy" was first played by the double bass, and then gradually expanded to string instruments and the entire orchestra. The intensity and rhythm became stronger and stronger, forming a huge torrent that was unstoppable. People were advancing rapidly on the road to freedom and joy. After the variation on the theme of "Ode to Joy", there was a storm-like sound again. But this time it was people singing from the heart. The baritone sang in the lead: "Ah! Friends, don't sing the old tune, let us sing it happily and joyfully.

"So "Ode to Joy", led by the lead singer, joined the performing band in the form of a chorus. The lyrics of the Ode to Joy are verses by Schiller, a German poet who was contemporary with Beethoven, and Beethoven used them to express his ideals. In Here we must understand that Beethoven and Schiller are different in their understanding of the basic idea of ??"Ode to Joy". Schiller believes that joy is the prerequisite for becoming brothers, while Beethoven believes that freedom, equality and fraternity are the prerequisite for joy. People You must work hard to achieve liberation. Joy is not a gift from God, but depends on people's struggle. Joy belongs to the liberated people themselves.

The addition of the chorus brings the whole music into a sacred realm, where thoughts, ideas and emotions are brought together. Emotions are sublimated, and all ugly things are ashamed of themselves under the light of thought. After their own hard struggle, human beings have finally been liberated, gained freedom and joy, and finally entered a sacred ideal world (Marx's "Das Kapital"). The foreseen communist society - the author) In the end, the chorus and band's performance became more and more fiery and faster, and the music was pushed to a new climax, and the whole song ended in a high-spirited and exciting atmosphere. /p>