"Ninth Symphony"

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This paper reviews Beethoven's classical musical piece the "Ninth Symphony". The writer includes a review of places and events this music has been played, included at the Berlin Wall and in Kubrik's "A Clockwork Orange". The paper attempts to describe the musical piece in words and explain its meaning and background, from both a technical and an entertaining viewpoint. The writer believes that Beethoven's Ninth is possibly the best piece of music ever written.

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"Today, we can only be grateful that Beethoven's music was spared the kind of criticism practised in the 21st century, "It would have been easy enough to detect revolutionary tendencies in the choral movement of the Ninth Symphony, or irreverence in the scherzos, just as Soviet critics have discovered traces of "bourgeois decadence" in the music of Rachmaninov." (Grove, Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies) Musical censorship in Beethoven's era seems liberal in comparison to today's standards or perhaps it is only that criticism was not so advanced in his time."

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