Beethoven: 9th Symphony 'Ode an die Freude' at Laeiszhalle Hamburg

About the Event

Ode to Joy — With this musical masterpiece and especially its final movement, Ludwig van Beethoven honors brotherhood and peace. The Deutsche Philharmonie Berlin invites the audience to experience the 9th symphony with the final chorus 'Ode to Joy' and to remember peace and international understanding.

In doing so, the event shines with a breathtaking sonority — during the first three movements, the different timbres of the orchestra come to the fore in a particularly impressive way, until, in the fourth and longest movement, the orchestra, accompanied by choir and soloists, sings the Ode to Joy.
The combination of choir, orchestra and soloists gives the performance a unique expressiveness. With the Deutsche Philharmonie Berlin, internationally renowned and experienced musicians on stage.
The poem 'To Joy' by Friedrich Schiller accompanied and inspired Beethoven throughout his life. Ten years before the 9th Symphony was written, he had the idea of setting the poem to music. But only during the years of work on his last symphony he took up this idea again and created a masterpiece that will not only inspire composers of future generations, but also influenced world events. In May 1824, the symphony was premiered in Vienna and was to go down in history as a key musical work and the anthem of the European Union.