About this minute
- Title
- Symphony No.9,
- Creator
- Ludvig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Contributor
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Year
- 1817 – 1825
- Location
- Vienna, Austria
- Collections
- Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Compositions , Human , Music , Orchestra , Percussion , Pitch , Rhythm , Stringed instruments , Structure , Texture , Wind instruments
Collection 1 #59
You just heard a piece of music by the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, written nearly 200 years ago! It is from Beethoven’s ninth symphony – the last symphony he wrote – and is a very famous piece of classical music. Did the beginning of the recording make you jump? After the first few dramatic phrases,…