https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/ode-to-joy-five-key-facts/ We provide information, analysis, memes and entertainment on European matters every day. We believe making Europeans is the key to making Europe. Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.18 https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/ode-to-joy-five-key-facts/#comment-166251 Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:47:26 +0000 http://mycountryeurope.com/?p=1950#comment-166251 I am proud to be a longtime resident of Heiligenstadt, in Vienna, a short walking distance to where the great composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, whose 250th anniversary we are celebrating, lived in the Probusgasse, where he composed, and later, wrote the famous Heiligenstadt Testament.

]]> https://mycountryeurope.com/culture/ode-to-joy-five-key-facts/#comment-160376 Thu, 26 Dec 2019 03:15:26 +0000 http://mycountryeurope.com/?p=1950#comment-160376 […] Here are some links to articles if you would like to know more about Ludwig van Beethoven’s melody, the poem, ‘Ode To Joy’, by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller, and some history regarding this poem and melody. […]

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