Just to make contact with this incredible work of art, it's really transformative ... He was really enamored of this ode of Schiller's, "Ode to Joy," and he started thinking about setting ...

A central reason for the symphony’s accessibility to a broad audience was Beethoven’s incorporation of the 1785 poem “An die Freude,” or “Ode to Joy,” by Friedrich Schiller ...

Google Japan has posted a new video made by Japanese Google employees in which they set up more than 300 different Android devices as a virtual choir to sing the “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven ...