Beethoven Symphony 9 in D minor Op. 125 (3/7)

[Roopfert]

Beethoven > Mozart

[zdzisek999]

te kotły np. w 04:22; mistrzostwo- nie do pojęcia że można coś takiego napisać i to już właściwie będąc całkowicie głuchym.

[Icantdothatrightnow]

I love this so much. Beethoven is the best of classical music

[storstarkskogsturk]

It's like fucking Venus herself.

[Blasting4Matter]

fuck those dislikes. they don't know what real music is.

[mixmam1]

oh god, the trio section for the scherzo is way too fast!! shame

[TheLolwutlolwut]

The West is the best.

[mafSAW]

@TheLolwutlolwut I love The Doors

[0kidavenger0]

2:45 my heart sank

[MrMrmike5]

Sorry Mahler's First Symphony but I think this my favorite symphony. I call it blissful melancholy

[PP1969GR]

2:30... a sound from heaven

[ILiveForScience]

Real horrowshow, brothers! 

[Postalcatz]

I always wonder what difference it would have made had Beethoven not lost his hearing so early on. His entire life would be drastically different and as a result, his music would be too...

[WAMEDJO]

@Postalcatz

It seems to me that the lost of his hearing was a problem for conducting especially, but composing for an orchestra doesn't requires to physically hear the orchestra, if one rely on the high value into Beethoven late works. But most of all, expressive content would have been diametrically different. What about the tragic expression on the 5th, if life was soft ?

[CanadaCob]

Danke Ludwig

[slayer7rocks]

What's the name of the instrument that starts @ 4:13 ? I just love that sound!

[johnpearcey]

@slayer7rocks bassoon

[leobarrera9]

thumbs up if you liked it so much you keep coming back.... like me.

[tgamerkle]

What's this bullshit about "no playlists"?

[riccardovlt]

@tgamerkle An implicit invitation to download the whole stuff and listen to it whithout fear of ads, copiright and so on.

[Frisbieinstein]

Beethoven stole all of his music from Clockwork Orange

[SpartanG600]

@Frisbieinstein I hope you meant that in some sarcastic way...

[TheCaptainco]

Probably the closest touch to the human soul. Emotion flow by music. Majestic notes with encrypted poem. Makes you forget the ugliness of humanity.

[phanlean]

So good

[TK2008BEST]

2:30-2:36 

[TQuiksilver]

Zajebiste.

[InflamedNik]

This is a wonderfull symphony. He who doubts is a fool. The guy was a genius. It just goes to show what you can do even if you have some kind of deficiency.

[jme9570218]

to about 6:30 on this one.

[TheGreatRichter]

Beethoven's music perhaps more than any other inspires us to think in higher terms of ourselves and tells us that so much is possible in this universe and is the true harmony that exists this universe and not the constant division that those in power have imposed on the human race. Beethoven's music takes you on an incredible journey and in the end cleanses the soul. There is no doubt that Beethoven in my mind is the greatest composer of all time.

[TheGreatRichter]

It just shows what creative genius Beethoven was capable of and all of us if we only applied ourselves inspite of all the war and chaos that surrounded him and still does us today. The human spirit of creativity will always be stronger than the destructive side. It is a simple answer. Destruction destroys itself so can never survive. Creativity creates itself and is infinite. Those in power who seek to impose their will on the rest of us and have done for thousands of years is coming to an end.

[eternallight14]

If Beethoven was around today, he'd be making dubstep

[PharaohFargo93]

@eternallight14 Nah, he'd be a metalhead for sure.

[sweeney665]

@eternallight14 naah...metalhead fer sure.

[Postalcatz]

@eternallight14 I really hope you die in a fire for even saying that.

[Ralledang]

All these people who engage in these angry attacks on eachother seem to have missed the whole point of the symphony. To reiterate Beethoven's point: Universality, brotherhood. Freude, meine Freunde!

[zmoresperros2007]

damn... king kong himself got sh*t on Beethovena! monu-f*cking-mental!!!!!

[zmoresperros2007]

contemporary composers got nothing on Beethoven...

[PTR131]

@zmoresperros2007 Of course not, they're shit.

[s2004230]

GEnIus!!



[MalcolmAxe]

Some people learned about Beethoven by watching movies like "A Clockwork Orange".. And, the reason they like it is because it makes them feel like Alex when they listen.. Heheh!

[TheOtherGuys2]

@MalcolmAxe "A Clockwork Orange"? Bah, I first heard Beethoven's 9th in "Die Hard"

[ItayoMan]

@MalcolmAxe That's sad...

[mattbox87]

@MalcolmAxe also, some people learned about Beethoven because their friends ("friends"?) enjoyed watching A Clockwork Orange because it made them feel like Alex. Meanwhile, the music of Beethoven resonated within them and they continued to listen without relevance or connotation to any film.

[PrototypeScope]

3:00 is the best! 

[TheFurthur]

shut the fuck up

[mleedrummer92]

I can only begin to imagine the pain in his resignation that he would never be able to hear this piece, a piece he himself would consider to be his greatest. I can almost feel the longing he must have felt in writing it.

[grThetrojan01gr]

Conductor/Orchestra?

[Steinwaytoday]

@grThetrojan01gr  I'm guessing its Gunther Wand :D

[alejhombre]

I would like to point out that Beethoven was not the only great composer who wrote his music without the benefit of hearing it. It is said that Mozart could literally produce finished compositions (no editing required) as fast as he could put down the musical notations. Other great composers too have written largely without the benefit of using an instrument. It is more impressive that Beethoven had no choice and continued to progress as one of the all-time greatest artists...to the last!

[JXSIDNEYX]

This is what made Heavy Metal!!

[deadbutfree33]

@JXSIDNEYX Ugh, get out.

[JXSIDNEYX]

@deadbutfree33 No :)

[acolytes777]

@JXSIDNEYX actually yes, metal uses a lot of harmonic minor scales, minor chords and classical chord progressions.

[magulinu]

THIS MAN WAS DEAFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF... THIS IS THE WORK OF GOD

[WaveOnaString]

He is the Stephen Hawking of Music

[aha45]

It's so good it like... makes me mad.

[davidlov1]

Beethovens masterpiece.

[ALDabbagh1988]

I really beleave that those how havent heard the 9th symmphony . . . havent heard any music in there life.

Metallica RULEZ

DIO RULEZ

Rammstein RULEZ

Beethoven RULEZ

Dmitri Shostakovich RULEZ

YOU RULELZ

[jeromeT1020]

Amen to that!!

[666Proibito]

Why you are so stupid?

[ALDabbagh1988]

Whats your problem FAG, and why the fuck are you calling me stupid. you fucking cucksucker

[HeavyMetalThunder211]

@ALDabbagh1988 \m/ a fellow metalhead \m/ well put

[huholah]

I don't know If I'm the only one but I LOVE Beethoven's use of basses and drums in this movement.

[metaladdict51]

I'm with you on that. Haha.

[calcio90]

I just love the music at 9:00 min. it is so under-rated, it is heavenly, just too bad Elias12186 didn't let it play all the way!

[ducttape83]

i hope you saw that Elias12186 has uploaded this entire opus to youtube. This is merely part 3 of 7, as denoted in the title.

[PadawanRJ]

My God... this is just PERFECT. Makes me cry everu time I hear it. Complete geniuos

[ALDabbagh1988]

100% with you in that

[danielmichels]

que isso cara. fumou?

[newfan7]

May be no genius had payed a harder prize for his gift than Beethoven.

He never heard what he had composed here though it was in his mind only.

[Sepheriam]

So true.

[jeromeT1020]

I suspect we are the ones that are missing out.  His mind could probably generate all sorts of sounds and melodies that instruments of the time just couldn't produce. I suspect that this just scratches the surface of what Beethoven was capable of.

[ThePiano1991]

agreed

[alejhombre]

@jeromeT1020 Are you on crack? What do you mean by " I suspect that this just scratches the surface of what Beethoven was capable of." This masterpiece achieved by the extraordinary focus and superhuman work ethic of a genius at the height of his powers, after a lifetime of monomanical dedication to his art, is possibly the greatest testament to human potential in the history of our existence. " ...just scratches the surface..." Indeed!

[jeromeT1020]

@alejhombre You are clearly an idiot if you don't know what I mean. Maybe you should READ what i wrote in it's entirety before you go spouting nonsense, because if you had done so in the first place you would know exactly what I meant. I got 27 thumbs up for a reason nimrod!

[alejhombre]

@jeromeT1020 I have an abiding prejudice in favor of Beethoven: he is my favorite composer and this is my favorite piece of music for full symphony orchestra. I did not miss any part of your short comment, nor was any of it too subtle. I don't think technological advances would have bettered his creative output. To wit: there has not been a single classical composer who is even in the next category below Beethoven since these technologies and instruments have become available.

[jeromeT1020]

@alejhombre Yes clearly you have missed my point.

[jeromeT1020]

@snoochify I have already explained my point twice to you. if your too dense or narrow minded to get it thats not my problem. And yes i do think of synthesized sounds and electric guitar and wood flute as well as many other things because they are all music and if Beethoven had access to such he would have utilized them in ways no one now or then would have.

[snoochify]

@jeromeT1020 I'll ignore your attempted insults (they only serve to emphasise your lack of substance/imagination, lol). And I still object to your cliched ooh-imagine-what-he'd-have-don­e-with-synthesisers-and-electr­ic-guitars-if-only-he-were-ali­ve-today crap.

You say "He made this complex piece of music WITHOUT the assistance of modern technology and instruments...."

Um, what does that even mean?

Now I'll shut up so people can enjoy what he thankfully did compose 200 years ago :)

[jeromeT1020]

@snoochify Ignore away. and yes please SHUT UP! i think its funny that you say I have no substance or imagination when you clearly don't have the creativity to see that he would have possibly to been able to create something unique with modern technology.

[snoochify]

@jeromeT1020 You talk total shite and then tell others to shut up? Hmmm, to be expected from the tiny brain you have so far exhibited (hahaha, excuse me while I laugh at my own insult to you). I have a suggestion that might boggle your minuscule mind for a few years...why don't you make a list of every genius in history and then imagine pointlessly what they might possibly have done with modern technology...instead of appreciating what they did do in their own time. Idiot. Bye now...have fun...

[jeromeT1020]

@snoochify No I talk truth and tell idiot snobs like YOU to shut up. Whether my imaginings are pointless is your opinion. But don't assume because I like a little escapism now and then that I don't appreciate what Beethoven and other geniuses have done. If you actually read what i said you would see that i do appreciate Beethoven and probably more deeply than you do. i appreciate his capability not just his music. IDIOT!

[snoochify]

@jeromeT1020 Dear Jerome - Wow, your last comment just blew my mind. It finally persuaded me of your true strength of character (courageously telling people you don’t agree with to shut up on YT – amazing, how do you do it?), the beauty of your mind (those incredible flights of fancy & imaginings), your deep love & appreciation for Beethoven and your unique perception of his real capabilities. Will you be my friend? Please don’t hate me. Do you have green eyes?

I think I love you (*snivel*)

[jeromeT1020]

@snoochify Dear Snoochify - I don't hate you. In order to hate you i would have to care about you. I pity you instead. It seems to me that you judge your worth by how many youtube arguments you can win. This seems very sad to me. And you talk about pointless whats pointless is you coming on here with at least 3 different screen names to argue a point that was not factually incorrect, but misunderstood by you because you failed to read and understand what was written.

[jeromeT1020]

@jeromeT1020 I like the sarcasm though its sexy ;)

[storstarkskogsturk]

@jeromeT1020 (Cheap whisky+Youtube=me responding to ancient comments)

I believe that Beethovens was a fucking genius, and if he had been born in the 40th century BC he would have geniused the shit out of sticks banging against rocks and wooden trumpets. Had he been born in the 13th century he would have geniused the shit out of lutes ond skin drums.

And if he had been born in the 20th century he would still have been a genius. And he would have geniused the fuck out of synthesizers.

[verticalmatt]

@alejhombre molto certo, very true. JS Bach was even better than Beethoven and he didn't even have the technology of a simple piano. However let's consider Glenn Gould in relation to Bach. Didn't Glenn Gould improved or expanded upon Bach's work because he was also a genius

[preston9019]

@alejhombre that is a subjective comment.

[softondrugs]

@alejhombre so unbelievably profound that he actually says "to wit" (on youtube). Hoping you're not a native English speaker, because it makes you sound like an unbearably smug moron. People haven't said this for hundreds of years. The problem with listening to old music on youtube is that most other people who do it have an agonisingly infantile inferiority complex.

[alejhombre]

@softondrugs It never ceases to amaze me how much dumber I am than I believe myself to be, nor how inept at presenting my point of view.

[FroggerbobT]

@jeromeT1020 Maybe you yourself have no idea what you're talking about. You got 27 thumbs up because there are 300 million stupid people on youtube. This piece was written at the pinnacle of Beethoven's career and has been heard by more people than all rock/pop pieces written since 1950 combined. Please return to this discussion when you have written music using modern technology that compares.

[jeromeT1020]

@FroggerbobT Or maybe your just a narrow minded imbecile. I wasn't comparing Beethoven to to modern music. I was merely suggesting that his genius would have allowed him to use modern technology even better than the artists of today, resulting in something none of us have ever heard of.

[jeromeT1020]

@alejhombre You completely ignored the first two sentences of my comment! Yes this just scratches the surface of his potential! Absolutely! He made this complex piece of music WITHOUT the assistance of modern technology and instruments. Imagine if he had been able to incorporate synthesized sounds and electric and acoustic guitar and various other instruments and tools that were not around then it would have been amazing.

[EspartanoRasta]

@jeromeT1020 Truth in that said my friend!

[Lity10]

@newfan7 he did, he wasn't born deaf.. ;O

[komradhall]

@Lity10 he was deaf by the time he composed this. he had to be turned around to see the audience's applause at its first performance. foolish boy

[Lity10]

@komradhall I know you stupid fool....... I just said he wasn't born deaf. Is that so hard? :D

[alyssahotty18]

@newfan7 Beethoven was actually only truly deaf by the end of his fifth. they suspect that this was because of syphilis.

[Lity10]

@alyssahotty18 no they don't, it was most likely lead poisoning from the lead cups he drank wine of.

[dgabar]

@newfan7 There may be: L. Euler, one of the greatest Mathematicians, was blind, so he couldn't write his Mathematics on chalkboard or a piece of paper... All his work was in his head.

[Alexander87oclock]

@newfan7 I think a lot of great geniuses pay a great deal for there gifts from god. Beethoven and his lose of hearing and Mozart with dying young. Though they're were both blessed and cursed, I think all humanity can agree that they both prevailed and there music lives on 200+ years later. I'm sure no one artist today will live on such as Beethoven or Mozart.

[andyoeft]

@newfan7

And to think that Chet Huntley and David Brinkley used this 2nd movement as their theme in the 60's

[jeffamarie]

@newfan7 That's okay - do you know why? What was in Beethoven's head is what these orchestra members are trying so desperately and fumbling to play. lol This will never come close to Beethoven's or indeed anyone else's soul. Its beauty lies in the inability of human expression to mimic it! But I think most of us can say that Beethoven came pretty damn close. ;)

[MrTimothyKhoo]

@newfan7 that is the era of innovation and creativity, thats why their music is just perfect, blended with the nature but somehow the system we have today so call science and strategy destroy everything, polluted with money, yet people just live in the life of not understanding any fact of it .. or some prefer just to ignore and live their life in shade..

[standforthmysoul]

@newfan7 Similar things are said about Hendrix. Although he had his auditory faculties, I believe he saw the music in his mind, in a sort of colour spectrum.

[Shreddersebbes]

@newfan7 well consider that you don't ever really hear stuff with your ear in the first place, then he didn't really miss out on the music, just the applause XD (seriously though, it takes a lot more to listen to music like this than just functioning ears, a brain and a cognizing mind to really get the full scope of this, your mind has to be attuned to it, you learn how to listen to stuff like this)

[Gillty101]

@newfan7 a beautiful mind

[MyrnaMinx1]

Thank you.

[LunatikaLovegood88]

Grande Ludovico Van!

[moisesvilegas]

Toda vez que ouço esta magistral obra deste gênio, me transporto para esferas superiores e vibro intensamente...