3 It was set to music over a hundred times, 4 and its fame received an extra boost when Beethoven incorporated it-or more precisely, less than half of it-in the fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony. It soon became, as Schiller later acknowledged, ‘to some extent a folksong’. Die Geschichte ihrer Aufführung und Rezeption (K (.)ĢWhen Schiller’s poem ‘An die Freude’ (‘Ode to Joy’) first appeared in 1786, it was an immediate popular success. 8 See Andreas Eichhorn, Beethovens Neunte Symphonie.7 The best known version is still the nineteenth-century rendering by Lady Natalia Macfarren, reprodu (.).by Norbert Oellers (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2009).
4 See the editors’ commentary in Friedrich Schiller, Werke und Briefe, Frankfurt edition (henceforth (.).3 Schiller to Körner, 21 October 1800, in Schillers Werke, Nationalausgabe (henceforth NA), ed.2 The text is that of the original version published in 1786, as reproduced (with spelling and punctu (.)īrothers, leap from where you’re sitting,.
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