The piece begins slowly like gentle breaths going through your ears with subtle instrumentation that it can be of god. The composition keeps developing to earth shaking extremes but not as bombastic as the fifth’s opening motive but as simple as Mozart’s fortieth.

In the second movement, keeps developing if simply to a more grandiose extreme pushing the limits of music to never before seen heights. At this point Beethoven has show the world what music is and should be, an emotional piece that speaks of the triumphs of world as a whole.

The third continues in the same way as the second letting true music bleed into your ears. As the piece slowly build into the final movement all breaks loose with one of the greatest crescendos in musical history with the “Ode to Joy”. This is where music has finally reached its peak and has lead to the voice as the final movement. The triumphant finale sang into the heavens showing the world what music and a true mastery of vocal performance is. Ironically this is where words soon become meaningless as the quiet and ingenious final movement of the Ninth has been in pop culture since its inception with its most popular use being in A Clockwork Orange. The use in pop culture gives images to the greatest movement in history as the beautiful chaos finally ends.

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125