"Ode to Joy" in it's basic sense is a straightforward four-voice chorale, although in Symphony #9, Beethoven does some remarkable things with it (including a double fugue).
The lyrics to "Ode to Joy" (An die Freude) were written by Schiller and set to music by Beethoven. It's theme is the ecstatic vision of an international brotherhood of man, a pretty revolutionary...
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