Beethoven's 9th - Ode to Joy Special | 1h 26m 46s | CC Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the world’s most popular symphony – Beethoven’s 9th – with a performance documentary culminating ...

The “Ode to Joy” has surfaced in the opening ceremony of the Olympics and other historical events, but also in pop culture, like “The Muppets” and “Die Hard.” Unmute to listen.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including the "Ode to Joy," is one of the most popular works of all time. Here's what it continues to tell us, and why it is especially relevant now.

Joy! Joy!” Beethoven proceeds to set Friedrich Schiller’s "Ode to Joy." He’d been obsessed with this poem since his teens but couldn’t figure out how to set it until much later in life.

“We’re going to be performing some choral and orchestral pieces, such as Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 9,’ which features the ‘Ode to Joy,’” she said.