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Artist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Year: 1775
The Ouverture for four voices, two oboes, two trumpets, violins and organ ("Misericordias Domini cantabo in aeternum"), written in Munich for Maximilian III.
Covers:
Ludwig van Beethoven [according to musicologist Alfred Beaujean, the violin part of the main theme of his 9th Symphony: Ode an die Freude echoes clearly 1 minute into Misericordias Domini]
Seekers [small hit UK as Emerald City]
Miguel Rios [as Song Of Joy (Himno A La Alegria); n°1 GER & CH, hit UK, US & NL]
Walter Carlos [as Ninth Symphony - Fourth Movement in film A Clockwork Orange]
Beaujean claims the young Beethoven could have known Mozart's ouverture through Padre Martini in Bologna, who received a copy from Mozart personally and made it available for his pupils. The lyrics of Ode an die Freude (Alle Menschen werden Brüder) is a poem by Friedrich von Schiller (1785/1803).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)