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.
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Thank you for your smart method. It allows for a non initiate, to follow the "line" of each instrument, emphasizing this extraordinary music. You give us the way to a better understanding of each musical plan. It means a small progress for us and I am grateful for this.
This piece is so very moving. completely beautiful. I also find that watching the bars light up in line with the music helps me to appreciate every tiny detail that might be lost to my untrained ear. Thanks for this video. very emotional in a very good way!
Ingenious! Seeing the dialogue between instruments, the imitation of themes, and the sweeps of contrary motion - as well as hearing it all - is very satisfying.
It's wonderful to SEE the individual melodies being set up and then being intertwined, to watch the way the piece is progressively developed. The video helped draw my attention to subtle things I missed in the music. I keep discovering new things each time I see and listen to this. Thanks for helping me to appreciate the music more, smalin!
At first Beethoven whispers in your ears..."listen, I have something wonderful for you to hear." And Ludwig takes off on a wonderful ride...just listen and praise God!
I am stunned with pleasure. I have relished this 1st movement for decades. Tonite has exceeded them all. The execution by the maestro is the best I ever heard, bringing out tonal content that I have never heard before. This is the first time that those predictably uncomfortable parts sounded truly interesting. And those wonderful graphics gave me an unprecedented glimpse into the genius of the tortured soul who wrote it. I must grab a drink and enjoy this again.
Yes! You're absolutely right. I think this is a wonderful way to listen to this music and to gain greater appreciation for the complexity of the material..
This is my battle symphony...especially this first movement, and ESPECIALLY the recapitulation starting at about 8:00. It is perhaps the most awesome moment in music (although the coda is incredibly badass too)...bringing about "a vision of the avenging angel; one's eyes would be dazzled by his radiance though one's heart would quake with terror”. The intro is rushed in this, but I like the brisk tempo overall. Best performances I've heard are under Eugene Ormandy or Leonard Bernstein
After using a program like Logic, I realize now how seriously incredibly great this is. Even though I'm not a huge fan of the music, it's the composition that astounds me. The attention to detail of every little piece and working everything in where it belongs, seeing it represented visually is amazing, and a totally different experience. It's crazier to think that the dude did all of this while deaf, with no editing or digital software to play it back, hear it, save it, etc. Truly amazing.
Smalin, this is beautiful, im sure if any of the composes were alive to see the beauty their scores visually create they would be proud of theirselves and you. Keep the vids coming. :P
im an avid heavy metal listener, however the structure, harmony and beauty of the whole 9th got me into allsorts of classical music....thanks for the uploads, i love it
I just wanted to say thank you very much for posting these videos. I use them with my elementary music students to show them this terrific music in a way that is very engaging for them to watch. Because of these videos, my students know some of the composers that you feature with this presentation software, and they love their music. They are beautiful. Thanks again! :)
smalin I am a teacher too and these videos are invaluable in helping pupils listen to music actively and understand what's going on ! I had whole class of 12 year olds absolutely buzzing for Stravinsky after watching your Rite of Spring video. Really good, these videos have the potential to make the world of music more accessible and enjoyable for pupils, teachers, and every one a like . thanks
dan haworth If you want to help me share these videos, tell musicians and arts organizations in your area (e.g. your local symphony orchestras) about your experiences with your students, and encourage them to add the animations to their live performances (www.musanim.com/live/).
the first part of the song sounds like the musicians are tuning their instruments (whole sections playing the same note, than another section, to make sure it sounds right) but it's actually the beginning of the song.
The whole movement is sublime, Steven, but I just cannot believe how genial the moment 7:13 - 7:20 is. I know I've said this before but... you're a fantastic uploader!
This is wonderful work really. I just converted most of your videos into a full screensaver for my PC. I love it when it begins, then end up not surfing the net for an hour or so LOL. Thank you for the great pain staking work you have created here. Cheers
how beethoven managed to compose this when he was completley deaf is just an example of pure music talent, i would like to see any artist of the past 100 years create a piece of music even close to this quality when deaf.
This is awesome!! It's kind of a fun puzzle, decoding which instrument each color stands for. Quite the brain tease. I could seriously stare at this for hours. Magnificent!
I've heard this piece many many times before. I thought I knew it note for note. But, for the first time I have seen it in a different light. I have now seen it performed and understand it's complexity. Oh, to be a Conductor and to know these things. I thought to myself while listening, what would Beethoven think. Would he smile? Would he see the music he could not hear? In a bar graph? Now seeing this for the first time, what will the future hold for us? Yes, a visual masterpiece for sure.
Your clips are so captivating, it just adds a new dimension to music, but every time i look at them i feel the like it would be nice to see a visualization of amplitude...to perceive differences in levels
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning. Not to mention the fact that he was mostly deaf when he composed this. He might have actually been entirely deaf by this point, not sure.
When I first got into this, I considered an approach related to that: to bundle the animations with a CD of the music. I asked some big record labels how they felt about this, and they said they'd take me to court if I tried it. Doing it on RUclips would be even more problematic, because different recordings of classical music have different timings.
Hmm, well I'll give my first impression of the opening sequence to Beethoven.s ninth, sounds like a reference to an orchestral tune up, and then some homage to bach. I've never ventured this early into this great work. More fool me. The rest has been said.
This makes me think about causality. I try to imagine what thoughts, experiences, genes, influenced him in such a way that he chose a certain bit of the melody to be the exact way, timing, composition of melodies and instruments etc.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I listen to the opening of this, I can literally hear words, as if, somehow, I am receiving a telepathic transmission from a rather insistent, mystical being-- it could be an angel, a god, an ET, or maybe even Beethoven himself, I don't know-- but this mystical being keeps repeating: "I know the secret to the Universe... if you would just come with me."
There's Bach and Vivaldi and Mozart displayed in this opening movement like an exposition that I have the crudest understanding of. Wish I could do that shit even slightly.
wow I can finally see what I've been hearing, Smalin you are great for doing this my ears thank thank beethoven for the 9th, but my eyes thank you Smalin for the graphical score , keep up the excellent work ty :)
I dont know anything about classical music, i cant read notes and i cant say which instruments are used there, but what i can say is, that this music really entertains me. :)
Okay, good; we're on the same page. I was speaking loosely. Here's a more technically correct response to citan84: "You think composers/performers/etc. shouldn't have exclusive rights to control use of their own their work for a limited period of time?"
damn i love classical music sooo much its just soo beautiful the music industry has gone to shit these days nothings better then classical music its original, intricate, and thought and effort was put into it i think that one of the best achievements of the human race is the expression of classical music.
+marbanak Even if he hadn't lost his hearing, we would be experiencing something very different from him, because how you hear music depends on how your brain works, musically. His experience of this piece, hearing it in his own head, was much better than our experience hearing it "for real." From what I understand about Beethoven's life, I think that if he'd been given a choice of being able to hear music or being able to hear speech, he would have picked speech. His deafness isolated him socially, and he suffered greatly from that. He could imagine what his music sounded like, with perfect fidelity, but he could not imagine what people were saying.
I can't imagine how you read what I wrote and came to the conclusion that I think that Beethoven's deafness was something good. When Beethoven could hear, he often composed completely in his head, away from the piano; the same is true of many composers of his caliber. There were many things Beethoven could no do because he was deaf: he could not play music with others, he could not conduct, he could not have normal conversation, etc. But he could still hear music in his head, he could still compose. I am not anywhere near as good a composer as Beethoven, but I can compose without hearing, imagine rhythms, etc. I'm not saying that Beethoven's loss of hearing made no difference to his composing --- we don't have a way of knowing that. But we do know that composing was one of the things that deafness did not stop him from doing, and doing better than he was able to do when he was younger and could hear.
Beethoven didn't write this, he dictated it. There is a code in all his music that was revealed to us, through him. Only in the modern Era do we have the technology to decipher it
Great music - you may find it interesting that I am playing this Symphony in a few days (Nov 13/11) and I am using your post to practice with - it is like I am with the orchestra. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of concentration, passion and intensity. I am looking forward to being inside the music playing 1st violin. With the 140 person choir in the 4th movement an in a new multi-million dollar concert hall, I am sure that it will be a spectacular live performance - I can't wait!
One of the most powerful pieces ever composed.
13:40 to the end is possibly my favourite bit of music ever
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.
yes 200th anniversary
The introduction is God tuning the universe.
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That's a brilliant way to put it!
What a great way to describe the opening of the greatest piece of music ever written!
8:08 is Beethoven's "I don't care if you break your instrument, play LOUDER" section. Perfection.
How to beat relentless tinnitus!
These videos are the best way of understanding the complexity of music without having the ability to read sheet music. I tip my top hat for you!
In some ways it is even better than the sheet music! It is definetly more limited than sheet music, though.
Beethoven’s 9th is the 8th wonder of the world
Best piece ever made, 1º movement.
5:53 FUGUE
8:08
1:49 Amazing canon
Thank you for your smart method. It allows for a non initiate, to follow the "line" of each instrument, emphasizing this extraordinary music. You give us the way to a better understanding of each musical plan. It means a small progress for us and I am grateful for this.
This piece is so very moving. completely beautiful. I also find that watching the bars light up in line with the music helps me to appreciate every tiny detail that might be lost to my untrained ear. Thanks for this video. very emotional in a very good way!
Ingenious! Seeing the dialogue between instruments, the imitation of themes, and the sweeps of contrary motion - as well as hearing it all - is very satisfying.
If you enjoy that, you might want to check out my more recent graphical scores ... www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
This movement has grown on me so much
when i first heard this in class i was amazed of this music.
Amazing...is an original way to "show" the compositions...
You might want to see some of my more recent visualizations: www.musanim.com/RUclipsHighlights/
smalin, you are a genius in your own right
I agree
It's wonderful to SEE the individual melodies being set up and then being intertwined, to watch the way the piece is progressively developed. The video helped draw my attention to subtle things I missed in the music. I keep discovering new things each time I see and listen to this.
Thanks for helping me to appreciate the music more, smalin!
a true masterpiece.
Even the pattern is beautiful!
I love both Beethoven and your work.
The soundtrack of eternity
At first Beethoven whispers in your ears..."listen, I have something wonderful for you to hear." And Ludwig takes off on a wonderful ride...just listen and praise God!
I am stunned with pleasure. I have relished this 1st movement for decades. Tonite has exceeded them all. The execution by the maestro is the best I ever heard, bringing out tonal content that I have never heard before. This is the first time that those predictably uncomfortable parts sounded truly interesting. And those wonderful graphics gave me an unprecedented glimpse into the genius of the tortured soul who wrote it. I must grab a drink and enjoy this again.
Yes! You're absolutely right. I think this is a wonderful way to listen to this music and to gain greater appreciation for the complexity of the material..
13:54 best part change my mind
3:35 9:42 10:47 12:15 12:54
The symphony that established Ludwig van Beethoven as the greatest composer of all time!!!!!!!!!!
This movement has been stuck in my head for three straight days since I first listened to it.
Classical music can never go wrong.
This is my battle symphony...especially this first movement, and ESPECIALLY the recapitulation starting at about 8:00. It is perhaps the most awesome moment in music (although the coda is incredibly badass too)...bringing about "a vision of the avenging angel; one's eyes would be dazzled by his radiance though one's heart would quake with terror”. The intro is rushed in this, but I like the brisk tempo overall. Best performances I've heard are under Eugene Ormandy or Leonard Bernstein
Hii.
Can the recapitulation be soo long upto 7 mins?
The recapitulation comes exactly at 8:08.
If this is not clockwork precision, I don't know what this then is.
@@siddhuzplace3737 There's a coda that's part of that 7 minutes as well.
After using a program like Logic, I realize now how seriously incredibly great this is. Even though I'm not a huge fan of the music, it's the composition that astounds me. The attention to detail of every little piece and working everything in where it belongs, seeing it represented visually is amazing, and a totally different experience. It's crazier to think that the dude did all of this while deaf, with no editing or digital software to play it back, hear it, save it, etc. Truly amazing.
Smalin, this is beautiful, im sure if any of the composes were alive to see the beauty their scores visually create they would be proud of theirselves and you. Keep the vids coming. :P
Thanks, Franco.
im an avid heavy metal listener, however the structure, harmony and beauty of the whole 9th got me into allsorts of classical music....thanks for the uploads, i love it
I just wanted to say thank you very much for posting these videos. I use them with my elementary music students to show them this terrific music in a way that is very engaging for them to watch. Because of these videos, my students know some of the composers that you feature with this presentation software, and they love their music. They are beautiful. Thanks again! :)
You're quite welcome. If you have any ideas about how to make more teachers aware of my videos, please let me know.
smalin I am a teacher too and these videos are invaluable in helping pupils listen to music actively and understand what's going on ! I had whole class of 12 year olds absolutely buzzing for Stravinsky after watching your Rite of Spring video. Really good, these videos have the potential to make the world of music more accessible and enjoyable for pupils, teachers, and every one a like . thanks
dan haworth
If you want to help me share these videos, tell musicians and arts organizations in your area (e.g. your local symphony orchestras) about your experiences with your students, and encourage them to add the animations to their live performances (www.musanim.com/live/).
the first part of the song sounds like the musicians are tuning their instruments (whole sections playing the same note, than another section, to make sure it sounds right) but it's actually the beginning of the song.
I love the way you've set the score out. Really interesting seeing how everything fits together and helps you to listen out for bits :)
Thank you for the time you took in doing this for all of us, Steven. God bless you!
all i can say is major teamwork for this to sound right, major props for the band that played this MAJOR props.
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning.
Well it starts out as an octave tuning session.. simplistic.. and then explodes into a complex and dynamic masterpiece.
The whole movement is sublime, Steven, but I just cannot believe how genial the moment 7:13 - 7:20 is. I know I've said this before but... you're a fantastic uploader!
This has helped me appreciate the piece even more, since I can now see things visually that I was not aware of before. Thanks for posting.
I've been waking up with this movement in my head for months.
so im watching this smoking a joint on full screen in the dark, its like my mind got blown with the most gentle breeze,,, WOW!
This is wonderful work really.
I just converted most of your videos into a full screensaver for my PC.
I love it when it begins, then end up not surfing the net for an hour or so LOL.
Thank you for the great pain staking work you have created here.
Cheers
how beethoven managed to compose this when he was completley deaf is just an example of pure music talent, i would like to see any artist of the past 100 years create a piece of music even close to this quality when deaf.
This truly is a masterpiece. But my favorite is still his 3rd symphony.
This is not only fascinating and beautiful, but it must have been a ton of work. Kudos to you Smalin.
This is awesome!!
It's kind of a fun puzzle, decoding which instrument each color stands for. Quite the brain tease.
I could seriously stare at this for hours. Magnificent!
I've heard this piece many many times before. I thought I knew it note for note. But, for the first time I have seen it in a different light. I have now seen it performed and understand it's complexity. Oh, to be a Conductor and to know these things. I thought to myself while listening, what would Beethoven think. Would he smile? Would he see the music he could not hear? In a bar graph? Now seeing this for the first time, what will the future hold for us? Yes, a visual masterpiece for sure.
Your clips are so captivating, it just adds a new dimension to music, but every time i look at them i feel the like it would be nice to see a visualization of amplitude...to perceive differences in levels
I have shown the amplitude in some of my videos.
I thought I had a spider in my monitor because of you. Well played sir.
Ah! You finally did this piece! I am forever grateful.
Beautiful music, beautiful visualization!
This is a remarkable achievement sir. I salute you.
Oy! now THAT is a good music there mate! real thanks to you for uploading this!
Its' always a pleasure to immerse in your videos, both visually and aurally!
Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning. Not to mention the fact that he was mostly deaf when he composed this. He might have actually been entirely deaf by this point, not sure.
Earth anthem
Thanks, smalin!!!
When I first got into this, I considered an approach related to that: to bundle the animations with a CD of the music. I asked some big record labels how they felt about this, and they said they'd take me to court if I tried it. Doing it on RUclips would be even more problematic, because different recordings of classical music have different timings.
lol..i just wanna say, great inspiration for anyone doing work with fl studio's piano roll. a visual masterpiece as well as a symphonic one..!
This is really nice stuff. Watching it go really adds a whole extra dimension, makes it more...textured. PLEASE DO THE 4TH MOVEMENT AS WELL!!!
how can something be so perfect...
7:00-7:25 I love the flute in that part I replay it at least 7 times every time I listen to this movement.
Best peace of music ever written!
What an undertaking! Thank you so, so much!
I'm always able to get so much homework done while listening to classical music
A whole new take on Beethoven. Great!
Hmm, well I'll give my first impression of the opening sequence to Beethoven.s ninth, sounds like a reference to an orchestral tune up, and then some homage to bach. I've never ventured this early into this great work. More fool me. The rest has been said.
Reading the score was amazing enough how beethoven wrote this piece, but looking at this is just crazy!
Congrats for all the work in the video description! Great!
FANTASTIC!!! I loved This vídeo!!!!
Great visual stimulation!
This makes me think about causality. I try to imagine what thoughts, experiences, genes, influenced him in such a way that he chose a certain bit of the melody to be the exact way, timing, composition of melodies and instruments etc.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I listen to the opening of this, I can literally hear words, as if, somehow, I am receiving a telepathic transmission from a rather insistent, mystical being-- it could be an angel, a god, an ET, or maybe even Beethoven himself, I don't know-- but this mystical being keeps repeating: "I know the secret to the Universe... if you would just come with me."
Allegro non troppo
is also the name of a great little movie that a lot of people overlooked.
Its great, what you did. I've seen it Monday 10.15. in Nuremburg to Beethovens 7nd Symphony.
If I had to describe a sunrise and the beginning of a summer day to a blind person, I would play this piece instead of speak.
There's Bach and Vivaldi and Mozart displayed in this opening movement like an exposition that I have the crudest understanding of. Wish I could do that shit even slightly.
this is the real music..
im listening to it while the sound is the highest level :)
on headphones of course ^_^
Amazing!
Amazing song. Thank you smalin!
I particularly like your playing of Moonlight Smalin...
2 flutes
2 oboes
2 clarinet
2 bassoon
2 horns
2 trumpets
Timpani
Strings
Appreciate the info.
4 horns
0:31 When I walk into my room, and I see that it's a mess XD
Great video!
Wow, this is awesome.
genuine on so many levels
Thank you, Smalin, for sharing each part of your grand project - especially the Beethoven! A brilliant gift!
wow I can finally see what I've been hearing, Smalin you are great for doing this my ears thank thank beethoven for the 9th, but my eyes thank you Smalin for the graphical score , keep up the excellent work ty :)
This is very addictive my friend :)
IMHO the best moment of the movement is from 7:14 till 7:20, although every single second of it is fantastic.
hehe the colors are really eyecatching
i was staring at them for the whole piece
I dont know anything about classical music, i cant read notes and i cant say which instruments are used there, but what i can say is, that this music really entertains me. :)
mesmerizing!
bravo, Smalin!!!!!!
Wonderful.
Simplesmente sensacional!
Okay, good; we're on the same page.
I was speaking loosely.
Here's a more technically correct response to citan84:
"You think composers/performers/etc. shouldn't have exclusive rights to control use of their own their work for a limited period of time?"
LOVE IT!
damn i love classical music sooo much its just soo beautiful the music industry has gone to shit these days nothings better then classical music its original, intricate, and thought and effort was put into it i think that one of the best achievements of the human race is the expression of classical music.
The poor guy only heard it in his head. We are experiencing something different than him. Much to contemplate in that.
+marbanak Even if he hadn't lost his hearing, we would be experiencing something very different from him, because how you hear music depends on how your brain works, musically. His experience of this piece, hearing it in his own head, was much better than our experience hearing it "for real." From what I understand about Beethoven's life, I think that if he'd been given a choice of being able to hear music or being able to hear speech, he would have picked speech. His deafness isolated him socially, and he suffered greatly from that. He could imagine what his music sounded like, with perfect fidelity, but he could not imagine what people were saying.
+smalin Brilliant insight!
I can't imagine how you read what I wrote and came to the conclusion that I think that Beethoven's deafness was something good. When Beethoven could hear, he often composed completely in his head, away from the piano; the same is true of many composers of his caliber. There were many things Beethoven could no do because he was deaf: he could not play music with others, he could not conduct, he could not have normal conversation, etc. But he could still hear music in his head, he could still compose. I am not anywhere near as good a composer as Beethoven, but I can compose without hearing, imagine rhythms, etc. I'm not saying that Beethoven's loss of hearing made no difference to his composing --- we don't have a way of knowing that. But we do know that composing was one of the things that deafness did not stop him from doing, and doing better than he was able to do when he was younger and could hear.
Absolutely.
@@smalin But he wasn't completely deaf though. He had hearing aids that helped him to hear, they are several of them in his natal house in Bonn.
Beethoven didn't write this, he dictated it. There is a code in all his music that was revealed to us, through him. Only in the modern Era do we have the technology to decipher it
Wtf are you talking about
Where did you hear this nonsense?
Please elaborate lol
Great music - you may find it interesting that I am playing this Symphony in a few days (Nov 13/11) and I am using your post to practice with - it is like I am with the orchestra. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of concentration, passion and intensity. I am looking forward to being inside the music playing 1st violin. With the 140 person choir in the 4th movement an in a new multi-million dollar concert hall, I am sure that it will be a spectacular live performance - I can't wait!