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Welten singen - (Hallelujah from "Christus am Ölberge") - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2009

"Welten singen, dank und Ehre! "

This is the "Hallelujah" from Beethoven's Oratorium from "Christ at the Mount of Olives"... pure Classical ROCK!

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  • Beethoven was a great man. He saw into the future. He knew that "worlds" would sing praise. We all now know that mankind will inhabit many worlds, not just earth. Beethoven knew it then, about 200 years ago!! Genius!

  • @SugarTomAppleRoger I'm afraid that you're so wrong; the text was not written by Beethoven, but by Franz Xaver Huber; Ludwig said: "I would rather set Homer, Klopstock, Schiller to music. If they offer difficulties to overcome, these immortal poets are worthy of it." Christian Schreiber was enlisted to make massive changes to the libretto. However, upon reviewing the changes, Beethoven still was not happy...

  • @lalungenuictdestens ...saying: "I know that the text is extremely bad, but if even a bad text is conceived as a whole entity, it is very difficult to avoid disrupting it by individual corrections".

  • Worlds sing thanks and praise

    to the exalted Son of God.

    Glorify him, O choirs of angels,

    loudly with holy, triumphal cheers.

  • Welten singen Dank und Ehre

    dem erhabnen Gottessohn.

    Preiset ihn, ihr Engelchöre,

    laut im heilgen Jubelton.

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  • Thanks for the post. Best available version of this masterpiece on Youtube, sung in German, as it has has to be!

  • indescribable.

  • Ludwig, tu es le plus grand

  • Abolute outstanding recording! Amazing!

  • Certified Intergalactic!

  • It is indeed possible to get high off Beethoven's music. O_o

    (@)__(@)

    what have I become????

    a music major that's what.

  • @lalungenuictdestens You are correct of course. Just slack writing on my part. I guess that the wording of "worlds" is Huber's construct. Maybe Schiller and co. did not envisage the impact of "worlds". People even now are limited in their ideas. They still talk of the world as if it is everything, and not "worlds" as we will have in the future. Anyway, I think these words are pretty good. I often hear them in political speeches here, but not in praise of God but some local politician.

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