Musicologist Ieva Kananavičiūtė. L. Van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Proclaimed the Triumph of Humanism in the Concert Hall of the Latvian State Opera and Ballet.

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Before the concert, a meeting took place with musicologist Dr. Jūrate Katinaitė, who presented the uniqueness of this work in the context of the era. In the Ninth Symphony, which premiered in 1824 in Vienna, L. van Beethoven, already almost deaf, used his voices for the first time in the history of music - four soloists and a choir sing Friedrich Schiller's famous poem "Ode to Joy" in the last, fourth, part of the symphony, which is why it is so…