An incredible presentation on Beethoven's 9th Symphony by musicologist Fred Haight. If you ever wondered how Beethoven's mind worked for over three decades to find the proper musical expression of Schiller's famous poem (Ode to Joy) as elaborated in the 4th movement of this symphony, and how his hypothesis evolved to ever greater powers of honest expression throughout the 1st three movements (and how all of this is related to Beethoven's work on the Grosse Fugue), then invest the next hour and forty minutes of your life into a serious study of the following presentation.