Beethoven.
Ode to Joy is not a Christmas Carol. It has been adapted as a hymn, but not a carol.
It is completely diatonic. And it is nothing short of a miracle that Beethoven could come up with such an important and memorable line that stays completely within a diatonic fifth, with only an...
beethovenThe "Ode to Joy" is the 4th Movement of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 9th Symphony.