No. Greatest scherzo ever written, yes - like the adagio that follows it, an absolutely perfect piece of music. And the Ninth is the greatest symphony, no question. But the greatest composition ever written, in the consensus view of those very few connoisseurs qualified to judge (I am not among them) is Beethovens C# minor string quartet Op 131 - or his Grosse Fuge Op 133, another note-perfect piece of music. Of course, Bach lovers insist that the D minor Chaconne is the greatest music ever penned & they are also right. No point in arguing when dealing with such sublime products of incomparable genius.
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his 9th and last symphony called Chorale, in Vienna. Here we are, today May 7, 2024, some 200 years later, God Bless Ludwig, and what would be the most powerful, spiritual and brutal musical work taught to the world. But if that were not enough, every time in my life that I lose my reason, my conscience, the motivation to even live, I can never help but hear the Ode to Joy echoing. And although I don't express it, I always break into tears of happiness remembering every word and every letter that the choir makes great.
He wasn't completely deaf,towards the end he was when he composed this,but it's easy enough,do you not hear music in your head,the genius was writing it..
It has often been said that Beethoven's 9th is possibly the greatest musical composition of all time. Appreciation of any art form is purely subjective...however, I would imagine there are many who would agree that this magnificent symphony is indeed the pinnacle of classical composition.
@@TheLifeisgood72 If Beethoven's 9th is an "incoherent rambling", I would love to hear some really GOOD music. That "professor" either needs to lay off the Prozac or greatly increase the dosage!
@@desireerahman4897 There are those who would disagree...but, whatever. Anyone who would describe this symphony as an "incoherent rambling" is most certainly not worthy of "professor" status...janitor, maybe.
Truly, the reason Beethoven was a Master of his craft. Completely deaf before its composition, and each instruments part written by hand in ink left no room for error. Absolutely genius.
I can't believe that anybody who looked at the score would say that. It's true that he wrote in ink, but he made many, many, many corrections. And he didn't write out the parts himself; that job was left for a copyist. imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d5/IMSLP19389-PMLP01607-Beethoven-Op125mss.pdf
Beethoven lost his hearing whilst composing this masterpiece ! When the 4 movements ended he had to be turned round to fave the audience and their raucous standing ovation ! Absolutely incredible !
I've played hard rock lead guitar for 39 years and when I was young used to think that was high energy. Then I remembered always liking the closing theme for The Huntley Brinkley report. Then I bought Beethoven's symphonies. Then I started listening to the 9th. Hell, if you don't have seat belts, you'll be blown away by movements 1,2, and 4, and you just roll out weeping in the 3rd. If I could only have one Cd this is it.
Beethoven writing: > great intro > amazing main theme >repeat that >amazing second theme >recap back into first theme > oooh nice cadenza, nice and smooth >> repeat ALLZ the themes >>> ???? 13:18 >>>>PROFIT
I had came home late from a friends house once tripping balls on mushrooms. I randomly had this on CD. I put it in and was taken on the wildest ride of my life. I was surfing around on beautiful crazy colorful waves of divine music.
Jesus this song is amazing. At about 1:18, when the first section stops and then repeats, it's just amazing. That section ends in the middle of a thought then goes back to the beginning.
I wish all the people who were watching ten years ago were watching now. I have 186,000 "subscribers" but when I post a new video, it only gets a few thousand views (because UA-cam changed their algorithm so that subscribers don't automatically get notified when I post a new video). And it's a pity, because the animations I've been making in the last few years are a lot better than what I did ten years ago ... e.g. www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
@@smalin Well then I have something to tell you! I remember when I was still a small kid (at about 10 years ago), one of the first times I heard the 9th Symphony was with this video. I distinctly remember being entertained by how the little blocks representing the melodies jumped around on the screen and also being fascinated by the music itself (Note that I was probably 6). Now by mere chance I stumbled upon your video of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the next video that played was this one. I had a flashback to one of my oldest memories ever. Now like you said, probably many of your subs from 10 years ago might now be inactive but I just wanted to say that 10 years later, when my father first introduced me to Beethoven, I happen to be here on my own in the same video. Have a good day my fellow music maestro. :)
Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.
This is an amazing piece of music. But the fact that Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed it makes this one of the most staggering feats of genius in human history.
Beethoven wrote music "in his head" (that is, away from the piano, using only his ability to imagine what music would sound like without having to hear it through his ears) long before he went deaf. This ability is shared by many musicians. It's tragic that Beethoven went deaf, but composing music was one aspect of his life where his deafness made little difference.
I'd encourage you to check out Bedrich Smetana. He wrote his two string quartets and most (if not all) of his Ma Vlast cycle while completely deaf (and dying of Syphilis).
This Piece possesses a musical representation of struggle, grandeur, peace and bliss. This truly is the pinnacle of Beethoven’s brilliance (not to mention he was fully deaf when this was written). The buildup starting at 5:30 and finally releasing at 5:42 is just otherworldly. This may be (in my opinion) the most beautiful symphony ever written.
She is certainly entering the list of the best symphonies of all time. I consider it to be the best symphony of all, but it is very much for pleasure, right? Every part of her is spectacular and has been so elaborate, so detailed, so wonderful. I consider this scherzo as one of the best already made, not to mention the fourth movement that is fantastic (and of course the most impressive is that he was already deaf)
Normally, 2nd movements to symphonies of this era were the so called calmer quieter movements. But in the 9th, Ludwig decided some kick ass was in order, especially since this symphony also offered the bonus "Ode to Joy" 4th movement (rather than the usual three). Some of the best of Beethoven. A kettle drummer's dream come true (among other great features).
Gablesman888 the main reason why it's my favorite of all classical music. Love the combination of raw power and percussion with soft harmonics at the end.
Trivia question: What well known long running television program featured this work as its theme song?Bonus question: Obviously the television program did not have the time to play the entire movement each "episode". But on what occasion was it played in its entirety as the program ended?
The Ode To Joy is more like a 5th movement, really. Symphonies usually had 4 movements, not 3, at least before and during Beethoven's time, and to some extent later. And yes they were usually in the order fast, slow, medium, fast. But there are many exceptions to this both in Haydn and Mozart's repertoire, so Beethoven did nothing new on that front. However, he was the first to use a choir in a Symphony, something which was entirely unprecedented until the premiere of the 9th Symphony.
NBC's Huntley Brinkley Report each weekday night featured the opening minutes of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 2nd movement. Viewers really never got to hear much of it that way. However, on November 22, 1963, as they signed off for the evening, NBC played all of the movement.
This is quite amazing. I am mesmerized by the visual representation of my favorite movement in 9th. "Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now..."
I first fell in love with part of this music maybe around age 7 (1960?). It was used for the closing credits for NBC News Huntley-Brinkley Report. Anyone here remember that?
Yes, I do - I was six years old and it was my first moment of wonder as the beginning of my lifelong love of LVB - still my favorite, even over Ode To Joy and Eroica - it still moves me to this day as it did when I first heard it.
My first introduction to Beethoven was my grandmother playing Moonlight Sonata on her grand piano. Clockwork Orange definitely made this one of my favorites as well. This song has a sense of mania to it that movie captures well. You can tell the movie is mostly a vessel for the score. Stanley Kubrick had wonderful taste in classical music.
Beautiful job visualizing the score! Being able to follow the instruments without necessarily reading music adds a whole new dimension to the piece. Thank you!
I first discovered this piece (the 2nd movement) around 2011 and found your version in 2013. I was immediately captivated by the scrolling bar-graph score as this is how I tend to visualize music and this piece is my all time favorite. Anyway I know this comment is 6 years late but thank you so much for this channel and choosing this piece to score!
“Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News.” From the very first edition in 1956 until the last in 1970, that is how the Huntley-Brinkley Report signed off. /// The music that played underneath the closing credits was the second movement (scherzo) of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This is the original 1952 recording with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra that was used on the Report. The music always started with the six notes and was faded out when they ran out of time.
Haha - that's one of my earliest memories! It lent a wonderful sense of gravitas to the news. In early childhood I had no comprehension at first about what was going on in the news, but I knew that is was very serious stuff for grownups. The music underscored that.
As a kid, i was curious about the end credits piece on the NBC news. So I wrote them a _letter_ (that's how old I am) and got a nice letter back from a producer . Just another brick in my classical music house.
IMO one of the most extrordinary peicec of music ever written. What I find even more astonishing is, Beethoven had gone totally deaf before he ever wrote this!
0:42 oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! it was gourgeousness in gourgeosity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal. Or like silvery wine floving in a spaceship... ... gravity all nonsense now. As i slooshied... ... I knew such lovely pictures
"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun, heaven metal. Or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship...gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied...I knew such lovely pictures"
Beethoven could compose great music in his head (without hearing anything) long before he lost his hearing. If Mozart had gone deaf, he could have done the same thing ... as could many other composers.
This puts me in mind of those school field trips a long long time ago, going to see and hear The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.....I really loved those field trips....
Impossible to believe that Beethoven wrote this music when he was completely deaf for almost 20 years! I wonder if he would change anything in it if he heard it?
He slowly went Deaf over the Course of 10 years but He cut the legs to his piano so he could feel the vibrations of the notes so it felt right to him so he would write it
Art Vandalay I know it sounds like a myth, but I think it's true. He had lots of "hearing aids" (ear trumpets), and I think I remember reading (in reliable sources) that he did something special to hear his piano even as he was losing his hearing.
This is some of the most beautiful work I've seen put together. Bravo, hats off to this individual for the time to create this visually stunning artwork
The idea that his music was written 200 years ago and people still talk about it and analyze it is astounding. Some parts feel more powerful than even your heaviest metal guitar or loudest bass drop. Pure genius.
Magnificent! Like the old piano rolls of yore, this really gives a sense of the "architecture" of the music! (As they say, "architecture is frozen music.") Thanks for posting!
Awesome piece of music. It really gets into your head. I watched the entire thing. And, when it finished I pressed pause and my computer monitor kept moving to the right.
5:36 , genius. I am can't believing he wrote this when he was deaf. the dinamic, the harmony, the music! everything is perfect! And of course 2:52 - the "game" between the timpani to the orchestra.
This video and this amazing piece of 'true music' changed my life.There is not even a single day I have passed without listening to this,since I've started to.Wherever I go and whenever I play this,these beautiful colorful bits of music keeps flashing through my mind.I get goosebumps once in a while and wonder,Almighty! Beethoven was deaf when he created this. Thank you smalin,
Lots of reasons: they might not like the performance as much as some other one, they might not like me, they might be having a bad day, they might be crazy ...
Julián Tovar The references are to the Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name.Beethoven's music plays a pivotal role in the plot, and makes up a fair portion of the soundtrack.If you see the movie, you will never be able to shake the association.You've been warned.
Hello - what FUN! 👴🏼🧓🏾I can play at being the conductor here in my chair. I never miss a queue, or a dynamic. It's all there in front of me, in living color. I discovered that by the end of the piece I had a vague idea of how colors relate to sections. Thank you very much for your work!
I think you need to distinguish between "couldn't hear his own music" and "couldn't hear other people playing his music." Can you "hear" somebody singing "Happy Birthday" in your head? For Beethoven, the sound of music in his head was more vivid than the sound of it in your ears. Not that he didn't suffer as a result of his deafness --- he very much did. But he was not living in silence in the way you imagine.
Like smalin said, he couldn't hear but he could still imagine. And besides that, he would have been able to sense vibrations through his skin. Quite a few deaf people still enjoy music by "hearing" through the skin, although it works far better when you have an amplifier and can make direct skin contact with a loudspeaker, neither of which Beethoven would have had access to. He was still a brilliant composer.
Beethoven was such a great musician (piano) that he knew how music sounded without having to physically hear it. Not to say it wasn't tragic that he went deaf, but ordinary people couldn't have done what he did.
Gustav Ramirez To me, Mozart is not comparable; he has a completely different vibe -- not as wild or willing to give in to darker or grander passions.Mozart sounds to me like the music of the angels -- but Beethoven's is like hearing the voice of God Himself, accompanied by not only all the angels of heaven, but of Satan and all his demons as well.
My speakers don't appear to be loud enough, although my neighbour is helpfully banging their head against the wall in time with the music - how thoughtful.
Loved the graphics! It's just great to see the score displayed like that. In my mind's eye I was already visualizing music as a moving line of colors...
А ведь есть нечто в классике,что цепляет даже не знатока и ценителя ! Магия какая то в наборе этих звуков ,прошедших через века ! Что чувствовал автор,когда записывал настроение ? Правильно ли мы его понимаем ? Брависсимо !!!
The graph work is nice, but one thing it doesn't show is dynamics, how loud or soft a note or set of notes or passage is. That would really be interesting. If we're talking 2nd movements of Beethoven symphonies, I prefer the 7th. That's something I would like to see with this treatment.
At the beginning there was a little notice saying "No mature content." I think it should have read no IMMATURE content: this music is just about the most mature stuff ever written!!!
Wow. Of course I have always loved listening and imagining but the visual given in this video actually let's you grasp the complexity and beauty of the music! I'll never stop enjoying classical. It paints a picture and moves your emotions no other form of music can. Truly genius.
Change one note, and there would be diminishment; alter a single phrase, and the entire divine architecture shudders and crumbles to mediocrity. Listen and bear witness to the awesome beauty and perfection of transcendent genius....
My favourite movement of the symphony and possibly the best musical piece in history so far. If we were to classify people by their preference to movements of Symphony No.9, I'd say there are the people who prefer Movement IV - Ode to Joy and there are people who prefer this glorious 2nd Movement. Needless to say, I'm the 2nd Movement most devoted, adoring fan!
+Oğuzhan Işık easily one of the best comments I've ever seen in youtube, you have my respect sir. Now, the really important thing: try smoking some weed and watching this. Best Video-Audio experience possible in the known world. At least in my known world. Worth trying. P.S.- Avoid commenting on youtube during this process, it may end up stranguru!
The graphic representation of these pieces expose the mindboggling complexity of their composition! Genius like this is nowhere to be found today. Absolutely incredible!
Have viewed several of smalin's graphic representations of great music. It's a wonderful concept. Just the sheer number of 'notes' in this piece helps to illustrate the complexity of this exquisite work. Just a great way to listen to these outstanding pieces.
Hai trasformato la musica, cosa eterea ed invisibile, in colore e movimento. SEI UN GRANDE! You have turned the music, something ethereal and invisible, into color and movement. YOU ARE GREAT!
"But what have you done lately?" www.musanim.com/UA-camHighlights/
I watched this when uploaded 😃
Ich mag diesen Song sehr.
I took an un- liquified shit.
Hell yeah
@@christopherkelley1230 🇩🇪
Could this be where the quiz starts on a radio channel called KUSC?
My neighbours are getting a full tour of your channel this weekend.
I'm afraid a full tour will take longer than a weekend. If you play the videos non-stop, 24 hours a day, it will take more than three days.
@@smalin Guess we'll spread it over two weekends then :) Thank you for your work!
Great I would love some tickets this concert my kind sir.
I'm doing the opposite. Blasting it while wearing my giant headphones so I can ignore my neighbors!
Haha
The greatest piece of music ever written.
No. Greatest scherzo ever written, yes - like the adagio that follows it, an absolutely perfect piece of music. And the Ninth is the greatest symphony, no question. But the greatest composition ever written, in the consensus view of those very few connoisseurs qualified to judge (I am not among them) is Beethovens C# minor string quartet Op 131 - or his Grosse Fuge Op 133, another note-perfect piece of music. Of course, Bach lovers insist that the D minor Chaconne is the greatest music ever penned & they are also right. No point in arguing when dealing with such sublime products of incomparable genius.
Fancy seeing you here...
Samuel Araújo Medeiros modern film scores lol.
I consider Mass in B minor, (at least Bach's) greatest
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his 9th and last symphony called Chorale, in Vienna. Here we are, today May 7, 2024, some 200 years later, God Bless Ludwig, and what would be the most powerful, spiritual and brutal musical work taught to the world. But if that were not enough, every time in my life that I lose my reason, my conscience, the motivation to even live, I can never help but hear the Ode to Joy echoing. And although I don't express it, I always break into tears of happiness remembering every word and every letter that the choir makes great.
The amazing thing is that Beethoven never heard this. It was all in his head. Fuckin' genius.
Yes at age 28 he lost his hearing
He wasn't completely deaf,towards the end he was when he composed this,but it's easy enough,do you not hear music in your head,the genius was writing it..
It has often been said that Beethoven's 9th is possibly the greatest musical composition of all time.
Appreciation of any art form is purely subjective...however, I would imagine there are many who
would agree that this magnificent symphony is indeed the pinnacle of classical composition.
Maybe people won't not disagree, would that be the same?
I'm glad you think so highly of this, I do too.
One professor tried to tell me this was the incoherent ramblings of a long deaf composer...
@@TheLifeisgood72 If Beethoven's 9th is an "incoherent rambling", I would love to hear
some really GOOD music. That "professor" either needs to lay off the Prozac or
greatly increase the dosage!
@@sporty1701 don't make it about medication - Prozac isn't responsible for taste
@@desireerahman4897 There are those who would disagree...but, whatever. Anyone who
would describe this symphony as an "incoherent rambling" is most certainly
not worthy of "professor" status...janitor, maybe.
Truly, the reason Beethoven was a Master of his craft. Completely deaf before its composition, and each instruments part written by hand in ink left no room for error. Absolutely genius.
I can't believe that anybody who looked at the score would say that. It's true that he wrote in ink, but he made many, many, many corrections. And he didn't write out the parts himself; that job was left for a copyist.
imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d5/IMSLP19389-PMLP01607-Beethoven-Op125mss.pdf
2022 and this is still a banger. Imagine writing timeless pieces like this.
Beethoven lost his hearing whilst composing this masterpiece ! When the 4 movements ended he had to be turned round to fave the audience and their raucous standing ovation ! Absolutely incredible !
to be there, in that moment...
I've played hard rock lead guitar for 39 years and when I was young used to think that was high energy. Then I remembered always liking the closing theme for The Huntley Brinkley report. Then I bought Beethoven's symphonies. Then I started listening to the 9th. Hell, if you don't have seat belts, you'll be blown away by movements 1,2, and 4, and you just roll out weeping in the 3rd. If I could only have one Cd this is it.
Beethoven writing:
> great intro
> amazing main theme
>repeat that
>amazing second theme
>recap back into first theme
> oooh nice cadenza, nice and smooth
>> repeat ALLZ the themes
>>> ???? 13:18
>>>>PROFIT
I had came home late from a friends house once tripping balls on mushrooms. I randomly had this on CD. I put it in and was taken on the wildest ride of my life. I was surfing around on beautiful crazy colorful waves of divine music.
Sounds like a blast
Beethoven's creativity and range of expression were off the scale.
When Dr.Angstrom MET the New World!Amazing!Thank you!
No, they were not "off the scale". But, he certainly does define what may be the upper limit of it.
Jesus this song is amazing. At about 1:18, when the first section stops and then repeats, it's just amazing. That section ends in the middle of a thought then goes back to the beginning.
Beethoven ninth one of the most powerful pieces of music ever created. Hail to you Ludwig. Rest in peace.
I heard this music as a child and still it has not left my mind. Such is the power of Beethoven
I used to listen to this channel a lot around the early 2010s
To think that this channel's reaching 15 years is just mindblowing!
I wish all the people who were watching ten years ago were watching now. I have 186,000 "subscribers" but when I post a new video, it only gets a few thousand views (because UA-cam changed their algorithm so that subscribers don't automatically get notified when I post a new video). And it's a pity, because the animations I've been making in the last few years are a lot better than what I did ten years ago ... e.g. www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
@@smalin Well then I have something to tell you! I remember when I was still a small kid (at about 10 years ago), one of the first times I heard the 9th Symphony was with this video. I distinctly remember being entertained by how the little blocks representing the melodies jumped around on the screen and also being fascinated by the music itself (Note that I was probably 6).
Now by mere chance I stumbled upon your video of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the next video that played was this one. I had a flashback to one of my oldest memories ever.
Now like you said, probably many of your subs from 10 years ago might now be inactive but I just wanted to say that 10 years later, when my father first introduced me to Beethoven, I happen to be here on my own in the same video.
Have a good day my fellow music maestro. :)
@@notusssj5322 Your story lifts my heart.
@@smalin thank you, I shall hope that in 10 more years I will still be subscribed and active.
See you around!
Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.
sladky !
Lol...thats exactly the quote I was thinking of
Love the visual representation. It's a great way for those who don't really understand the music to see how amazing it really is. Thanks.
I can barely imagine the joy of having a side-by-side split screen of this visualize with a traditional score next to it.
30 years since my mum took me to see it live for my 6th birthday and all the emotions remain. Every time, like it's the first.
This is an amazing piece of music. But the fact that Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed it makes this one of the most staggering feats of genius in human history.
Beethoven wrote music "in his head" (that is, away from the piano, using only his ability to imagine what music would sound like without having to hear it through his ears) long before he went deaf. This ability is shared by many musicians. It's tragic that Beethoven went deaf, but composing music was one aspect of his life where his deafness made little difference.
I'd encourage you to check out Bedrich Smetana. He wrote his two string quartets and most (if not all) of his Ma Vlast cycle while completely deaf (and dying of Syphilis).
By far the most brilliant piece of music ever composed. Bravo maestro!
who would have known that beethoven composed a bill cosby sweater
+1SeniorSmurf made my day
Dj2xP :) I'm glad. it made my day knowing I made a strangers day.
+1SeniorSmurf i must say, it makes my day in it's own way to see someone's day made by making a stranger's day
It even makes my day know that somebody making made day made his/her day!
It's the notorious "made my day" loop
This movement moves me the most. Guaranteed goosebumps. If I'm not prepared for it, I'm caught off guard by crippling shivers.
You've taken a crystal-clear recording of true art.... and made another art of it.
Bravo... and THANK YOU. :-)
I hope you can check out some of my more recent work ...
www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
ua-cam.com/video/jySFYoTu0Oo/v-deo.html (Bartok)
well said sir!
Love the bar-graph,too. Helps a non-musical person understand the complexities of music composition.
This Piece possesses a musical representation of struggle, grandeur, peace and bliss. This truly is the pinnacle of Beethoven’s brilliance (not to mention he was fully deaf when this was written). The buildup starting at 5:30 and finally releasing at 5:42 is just otherworldly. This may be (in my opinion) the most beautiful symphony ever written.
She is certainly entering the list of the best symphonies of all time. I consider it to be the best symphony of all, but it is very much for pleasure, right? Every part of her is spectacular and has been so elaborate, so detailed, so wonderful. I consider this scherzo as one of the best already made, not to mention the fourth movement that is fantastic (and of course the most impressive is that he was already deaf)
Normally, 2nd movements to symphonies of this era were the so called calmer quieter movements. But in the 9th, Ludwig decided some kick ass was in order, especially since this symphony also offered the bonus "Ode to Joy" 4th movement (rather than the usual three). Some of the best of Beethoven. A kettle drummer's dream come true (among other great features).
Gablesman888 the main reason why it's my favorite of all classical music. Love the combination of raw power and percussion with soft harmonics at the end.
Trivia question: What well known long running television program featured this work as its theme song?Bonus question: Obviously the television program did not have the time to play the entire movement each "episode". But on what occasion was it played in its entirety as the program ended?
The Ode To Joy is more like a 5th movement, really. Symphonies usually had 4 movements, not 3, at least before and during Beethoven's time, and to some extent later. And yes they were usually in the order fast, slow, medium, fast. But there are many exceptions to this both in Haydn and Mozart's repertoire, so Beethoven did nothing new on that front. However, he was the first to use a choir in a Symphony, something which was entirely unprecedented until the premiere of the 9th Symphony.
Gablesman888 I remember it being used to creepy effect in "A Clockwork Orange," but didn't know it was in a tv show. Which one was it?
NBC's Huntley Brinkley Report each weekday night featured the opening minutes of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 2nd movement. Viewers really never got to hear much of it that way. However, on November 22, 1963, as they signed off for the evening, NBC played all of the movement.
the quiet parts are like a lullaby and then the sudden change of beat will wake you up for sure. Beethoven is easily my favorite composer.
This is quite amazing. I am mesmerized by the visual representation of my favorite movement in 9th.
"Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now..."
best piece of music ever written
Beethoven is the man who can stretch the limits of a note.
I first fell in love with part of this music maybe around age 7 (1960?). It was used for the closing credits for NBC News Huntley-Brinkley Report. Anyone here remember that?
Yeah good night David good night Chet and good night for NBC news
Yes, I do - I was six years old and it was my first moment of wonder as the beginning of my lifelong love of LVB - still my favorite, even over Ode To Joy and Eroica - it still moves me to this day as it did when I first heard it.
Absolutely!
And then Chet said, “Goodnight Ludwig”.
My first introduction to Beethoven was my grandmother playing Moonlight Sonata on her grand piano. Clockwork Orange definitely made this one of my favorites as well. This song has a sense of mania to it that movie captures well. You can tell the movie is mostly a vessel for the score. Stanley Kubrick had wonderful taste in classical music.
"I was cured, alright!"
Gets you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
oh I saw such lovely pictures. ..
I have been searching for this piece for 4 years and I finally found it and I am soo happy
my favorite movement of this symphony
During quarantine, my ears and soul need classical music better than ever!
Beautiful job visualizing the score! Being able to follow the instruments without necessarily reading music adds a whole new dimension to the piece. Thank you!
Such a motivating piece for difficult times...
I first discovered this piece (the 2nd movement) around 2011 and found your version in 2013. I was immediately captivated by the scrolling bar-graph score as this is how I tend to visualize music and this piece is my all time favorite. Anyway I know this comment is 6 years late but thank you so much for this channel and choosing this piece to score!
You're quite welcome.
I can not read music. This is visual eye candy for me.
“Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News.” From the very first edition in 1956 until the last in 1970, that is how the Huntley-Brinkley Report signed off.
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The music that played underneath the closing credits was the second movement (scherzo) of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This is the original 1952 recording with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra that was used on the Report. The music always started with the six notes and was faded out when they ran out of time.
Haha - that's one of my earliest memories! It lent a wonderful sense of gravitas to the news. In early childhood I had no comprehension at first about what was going on in the news, but I knew that is was very serious stuff for grownups. The music underscored that.
As a kid, i was curious about the end credits piece on the NBC news. So I wrote them a _letter_ (that's how old I am) and got a nice letter back from a producer . Just another brick in my classical music house.
KO used this on 'Countdown' on MSNBC at the time and even today, he still uses this song. Very fitting!
@@TodLauerThis is one of my earliest memories as well! Loved it then and love it now.
IMO one of the most extrordinary peicec of music ever written. What I find even more astonishing is, Beethoven had gone totally deaf before he ever wrote this!
Agreed wholeheartedly!!! Simply Amazing
The sheer genius behind this makes my whole body shiver. Pure master class.
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oh bliss!
Bliss and heaven!
it was gourgeousness in gourgeosity made flesh.
It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal.
Or like silvery wine floving in a spaceship...
... gravity all nonsense now.
As i slooshied...
... I knew such lovely pictures
Lol I was scrolling to see this.
@@chipensemble thanks
Nicely done, brother. Real horror show!
Still the number one classical movement I remember and know basically everything by heart.
"Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun, heaven metal. Or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship...gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied...I knew such lovely pictures"
TigerTrollUSA tolchock and alround horror shows for malenky petistas, my brother.
Viddi well, droog.
Alex, my dear droogi.
Horror show, droogie..real horror show...doobie doob..
It's awesome how a deaf man could create some of the greatest music in history.
Beethoven could compose great music in his head (without hearing anything) long before he lost his hearing. If Mozart had gone deaf, he could have done the same thing ... as could many other composers.
This is probably the best recording of this immortal work by Beethoven I've ever heard. This orchestra really gives it life and clarity!
This puts me in mind of those school field trips a long long time ago, going to see and hear The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.....I really loved those field trips....
I went to the Buffalo Philharmonic with my class when I was very young. I've never forgotten. I believe it was in the beginning of the 60s!!!!
This format let's you track and anticipate any part and instrument.
It's brilliant.
I love tracking the bass line
The momentum is great.
used to have this as our school bell, absolute perfection.
Yeah?? I think that's awesome!!
Impossible to believe that Beethoven wrote this music when he was completely deaf for almost 20 years! I wonder if he would change anything in it if he heard it?
He slowly went Deaf over the Course of 10 years but He cut the legs to his piano so he could feel the vibrations of the notes so it felt right to him so he would write it
Genius-level composers hear notes in their mind.
MrNick951 that sounds like a myth
Art Vandalay
I know it sounds like a myth, but I think it's true. He had lots of "hearing aids" (ear trumpets), and I think I remember reading (in reliable sources) that he did something special to hear his piano even as he was losing his hearing.
He placed his piano on the floor to feel its vibrations.
Oh bliss...bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh!
This part of the symphony is absolutely lovely 6:56
7:39 sooo heart swelling
Auugh here we go again 9:39
I always want more of 2:17
Genio mostruoso
5:03 gotta love the timpani in this part
same
I listen to this at maximum volume, and I can't help but march vigorously describing circles following the tempo of the music.
This is some of the most beautiful work I've seen put together. Bravo, hats off to this individual for the time to create this visually stunning artwork
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Absolutely fascinating to see what's going on - very interesting!
The idea that his music was written 200 years ago and people still talk about it and analyze it is astounding. Some parts feel more powerful than even your heaviest metal guitar or loudest bass drop. Pure genius.
A true master of composition...
Great and marvelous! I actually SAW notes my ears didn't listen... LOVED IT! Thank you for the effort. I wish I could find more of this :) THX!
www.musanim.com/UA-camHighlights/
@@smalin went there! Thank you!
Magnificent! Like the old piano rolls of yore, this really gives a sense of the "architecture" of the music! (As they say, "architecture is frozen music.") Thanks for posting!
Awesome piece of music. It really gets into your head. I watched the entire thing. And, when it finished I pressed pause and my computer monitor kept moving to the right.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
@@smalin Oh, I thought it was the music still in my head making the monitor move.
5:36 , genius. I am can't believing he wrote this when he was deaf. the dinamic, the harmony, the music! everything is perfect!
And of course 2:52 - the "game" between the timpani to the orchestra.
Dont trust the voices in your head, Trust the sounds...
PianoMasters 113 , there is also pizzicato of the strings.
fdg, what?
I wish it hadn't taken me nearly 30 years to get into this stuff. Breathtaking work.
I recommend this (you might want to start in the middle and work your way earlier and later): www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
Unfortunately many of us (myself included) didn't actually 'listen' to it and couldn't grasp its value. Good to be here now though lol
I fell in love with this music back in the 1950's and 1960's as it was used for the closing music of the Huntley -Brinkley NBC News
And at the beginning of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
This video and this amazing piece of 'true music' changed my life.There is not even a single day I have passed without listening to this,since I've started to.Wherever I go and whenever I play this,these beautiful colorful bits of music keeps flashing through my mind.I get goosebumps once in a while and wonder,Almighty! Beethoven was deaf when he created this.
Thank you smalin,
I love this. Very nicely done. Gives me chills, seeing the visual analog of this masterful work.
Absolutely brilliant. Beethoven at his most inspired.
Consider my mind blown! Happy Birthday, Ludwig Beethoven!
To celebrate, be sure to check out these: www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
Another inspired piece of pure music...
How can anbody put a thumbs down to this absolute classic?!
lol
Lots of reasons: they might not like the performance as much as some other one, they might not like me, they might be having a bad day, they might be crazy ...
They may have screen problem caused by virus which switches all the icon directions. MAYBE.
9:40 Cue Alex putting the mini cassette into the player...
Don't forget the dancing Jesi figurines...
Love that scene.
Vedran Noneofyourbusiness another reference to that bad film. ugh.
Julián Tovar The references are to the Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name.Beethoven's music plays a pivotal role in the plot, and makes up a fair portion of the soundtrack.If you see the movie, you will never be able to shake the association.You've been warned.
It's the same thing with Alex until a very fateful and disturbing moment in the film.
Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity.
Made flesh
Hello - what FUN! 👴🏼🧓🏾I can play at being the conductor here in my chair. I never miss a queue, or a dynamic. It's all there in front of me, in living color. I discovered that by the end of the piece I had a vague idea of how colors relate to sections. Thank you very much for your work!
It amazes me that Beethoven made this final piece when he was completely deaf... poor Ludwig couldn't hear his own beautiful music.
I think you need to distinguish between "couldn't hear his own music" and "couldn't hear other people playing his music." Can you "hear" somebody singing "Happy Birthday" in your head? For Beethoven, the sound of music in his head was more vivid than the sound of it in your ears. Not that he didn't suffer as a result of his deafness --- he very much did. But he was not living in silence in the way you imagine.
Like smalin said, he couldn't hear but he could still imagine. And besides that, he would have been able to sense vibrations through his skin. Quite a few deaf people still enjoy music by "hearing" through the skin, although it works far better when you have an amplifier and can make direct skin contact with a loudspeaker, neither of which Beethoven would have had access to. He was still a brilliant composer.
Beethoven didn't need to hear it with his ears, I'm sure he listened to it years before he put quill to vellum.
Beethoven was such a great musician (piano) that he knew how music sounded without having to physically hear it. Not to say it wasn't tragic that he went deaf, but ordinary people couldn't have done what he did.
Every single flash of light in that video Beethoven saw and heard in his head...where it remained unsullied...
Have you ever heard anything more beautiful? This is the definition of the triumph of music.
*****
Beethoven truly is an incredible composer, but I daresay that some of Mozart's pieces are at least equal to this in both beauty and emotion! :))
Gustav Ramirez To me, Mozart is not comparable; he has a completely different vibe -- not as wild or willing to give in to darker or grander passions.Mozart sounds to me like the music of the angels -- but Beethoven's is like hearing the voice of God Himself, accompanied by not only all the angels of heaven, but of Satan and all his demons as well.
My speakers don't appear to be loud enough, although my neighbour is helpfully banging their head against the wall in time with the music - how thoughtful.
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GENIUS TECHNOLOGY, mixed with the GENIUS MIND of BEETHOVEN = MAGIC!
Thank you Clockwork Orange for introducing me to Beethoven...
bliss and heaven... oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh
Loved the graphics! It's just great to see the score displayed like that. In my mind's eye I was already visualizing music as a moving line of colors...
Here are the highlights of this project: www.musanim.com/UA-camHighlights/
@@smalin Great! That's wonderful work, thanks! :)
I think me playing around with GarageBand as a 5-year-old really shaped the way I visualize music.
Perhaps the best symphony ever written, incredible..
А ведь есть нечто в классике,что цепляет даже не знатока и ценителя ! Магия какая то в наборе этих звуков ,прошедших через века ! Что чувствовал автор,когда записывал настроение ? Правильно ли мы его понимаем ? Брависсимо !!!
The graph work is nice, but one thing it doesn't show is dynamics, how loud or soft a note or set of notes or passage is. That would really be interesting.
If we're talking 2nd movements of Beethoven symphonies, I prefer the 7th. That's something I would like to see with this treatment.
ua-cam.com/play/PLtj_HurkS7ZwcYB4CAqCxhOeM-gf8olUl.html
The 2nd movement of the Seventh has been given a similar treatment. Do some internet searching and you'll find it.
0:32 and 3:33 mosh pits in 1824 went crazy.
At the beginning there was a little notice saying "No mature content." I think it should have read no IMMATURE content: this music is just about the most mature stuff ever written!!!
"He hums this...CHILDISH TUNE... I think he is going MAD..."
Wow. Of course I have always loved listening and imagining but the visual given in this video actually let's you grasp the complexity and beauty of the music! I'll never stop enjoying classical. It paints a picture and moves your emotions no other form of music can. Truly genius.
What a wonderful way to "see" what is in my opinion, the greatest piece of music ever composed.
Change one note, and there would be diminishment; alter a single phrase, and the entire divine architecture shudders and crumbles to mediocrity. Listen and bear witness to the awesome beauty and perfection of transcendent genius....
I recall Mozart writing that. Or was is Beethoven?
@@SethingtonIII in the movie Amadeus salieri says this of mozarts music
@@eliass596 Its not just in the movie. Salieri actually wrote this in a letter talking about hearing Mozarts composing.
My favourite movement of the symphony and possibly the best musical piece in history so far. If we were to classify people by their preference to movements of Symphony No.9, I'd say there are the people who prefer Movement IV - Ode to Joy and there are people who prefer this glorious 2nd Movement. Needless to say, I'm the 2nd Movement most devoted, adoring fan!
The third movement is also very beautiful. ua-cam.com/video/Kri2jWr08S4/v-deo.html
Synthesis: the fourth movement is considerably improved by the second movement's preceding it!
I really don't want to play favorites with the entirety of the composition but I concur with your sentiment.
Me too
Finally found something that i can play with 23 fingers
+Oğuzhan Işık this isn't supposed to be played only by one man
+Tim C (Skyce) That's okay; one man isn't supposed to have 23 fingers
+Oğuzhan Işık easily one of the best comments I've ever seen in youtube, you have my respect sir.
Now, the really important thing: try smoking some weed and watching this. Best Video-Audio experience possible in the known world. At least in my known world. Worth trying.
P.S.- Avoid commenting on youtube during this process, it may end up stranguru!
+Luís Ferreira -- Panoramical does the same without the drugs.
+Oğuzhan Işık There is a 1 piano 4 hands arrangement so 20 fingers....smiles
The graphic representation of these pieces expose the mindboggling complexity of their composition! Genius like this is nowhere to be found today. Absolutely incredible!
I cannot even tell you enough how much I love these videos. Thank you for the time you have out into them.
I love the highlighting of the notes that are being played. Well made!!
Awesome idea, it’s much easier to follow all the parts moving around thank you.
Have viewed several of smalin's graphic representations of great music. It's a wonderful concept. Just the sheer number of 'notes' in this piece helps to illustrate the complexity of this exquisite work. Just a great way to listen to these outstanding pieces.
This is straight fire. Ludwig is litty af.
Hai trasformato la musica, cosa eterea ed invisibile, in colore e movimento. SEI UN GRANDE!
You have turned the music, something ethereal and invisible, into color and movement. YOU ARE GREAT!