Home / Music / Beethoven's Ninth sets Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'Music linernotes album music anton-brucknerBeethoven's Ninth sets Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'The choral finale of Beethoven’s Ninth sets Friedrich Schiller’s poem ‘Ode to Joy’ (An die Freude), written in 1785 and revised in 1803. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBeethoven's Ninth is why composers fear the ninth symphonyBeethoven's Ninth manuscript was the first score on UNESCO's registerFour vocal soloists performed at the premiere of Beethoven's NinthAlso sprach Zarathustra's Sunrise fanfare owes its fame to KubrickDvořák wrote his Symphony No. 9 in 1893 while in New YorkExploreShaker Loops began as Wavemaker, inspired by water ripplesSign o' the Times was voted the best album of 1987 by Pazz & Jop criticsasync was Sakamoto's first album after recovering from throat cancerBroken English was Marianne Faithfull's comeback after a decade of hardshipButterfly marked Mariah Carey's shift from pop ballads to hip-hop and R&BPrevious Beethoven's Ninth was the first major symphony to use voicesNext Beethoven's Ninth premiered on May 7, 1824 in Vienna