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The inspiration for Beethoven's last symphony, the Ninth Symphony, came from his youth in Bonn, and he chose Schiller's 1785 poem "Ode to Joy" as the lyrics. Schiller, the Bonn professor, wrote in a letter to his wife in 1792: I am immersed in a piece of music composed by a well-known musician here... He wants to compose music for my "Ode to Joy". I really want this to be a perfect masterpiece. I know him as a great and noble musician. "And the composer never stopped being fascinated by Schiller's poems in the early career, until 1822 when he entered the decisive stage of career maturity." The first movement is a solemn and not too fast Allegro, "At the beginning, two Two minor keys overlap, one of which is composed of the sextuplets (double triplets) of the second violin and cello, which play an important role in the development of the movement. The other one controls the main melody, following the 2/4 measure. The fourth note develops in a crescendo from the eighth note to the sixteenth note, and the final triplet converges to the sixteenth note, echoing the designated crescendo symbol. " Harmonically, the main tone appears first. It quickly changes to the starting point of the keynote D minor. Contrary to all previous symphonies, Beethoven does not use repetition in any part of the opening movement. Except for the percussion section, the Ninth Symphony has no expansion of the main theme. Although it is frequently performed, there is still no answer as to why the lively Presto of the second piece was presented as a scherzo. In 1817, Beethoven used this Scherzo as the main theme of the third piece. In 1823, after repeated considerations, he removed this melody, and the Adagio Cantabile of 1923 showed a kind of silence between Scherzo and Presto. The first three movements incorporate expressive cello and double bass, playing the "joyful" atmosphere of the theme in the form of a canon. Beethoven also faced textual problems. While Beethoven was composing, Schiller made many revisions to the text. Sentences such as "The sharp sword of tradition has been blunted, and beggars have become brothers of princes" and "People, endure bravely and wait for the arrival of a bright world" have been deleted. Beethoven decided to use Schiller's milder version: "All conservatism has fallen apart, all people are brothers and sisters" and "Man, have you given up? World, do you know your Creator?", Originally planning to put 18 lines of poetry in the piece, Beethoven only used six lines, using lines 1, 3, 5, 8, 2, and 6 in order. Schiller described the difficulties faced by Beethoven in adding instrumental music to the chorus: "One day he came into the room and shouted to me, 'I have finally finished it.' He showed me a draft full of notes: 'Let Let's sing this piece by the immortal writer Schiller, and then he sings it alone, then adopts the more appropriate line "Oh friend, let's sing a happy tune together." .” The score for the Symphony No. 9 in D minor was completed in February 1824. For Beethoven, a dream that had been brewing for thirty years finally came true. Its premiere took place on May 7, 1824 at the Canternet Theater in Vienna and was a great success. Mike Umloff is the conductor, Henriette Sontag is the soprano soloist, Caroline Onger is the alto soloist, Anton Heisinger is the tenor soloist, and Joseph Seppert is the tenor soloist. Bass solo. The work later underwent interpretations far removed from Beethoven's original intention. Because the composer emphasized the vocal part on the one hand, and the value of the text on the other, this caused deviations in the interpretation of later generations. The over-emphasis on the first title, "All men are brothers and sisters," affects the second part, making the piece titled "How Your Gentle Wings Shall Fly" almost ignored. Richard Wagner believed that the vocals should be introduced when the instrumental music fades out, and suggested that classic melody repetitions should be included in the vocal part. This suggestion was later adopted.