December 16, 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. As part of the international celebrations this year and next year, in honor of Beethoven, the Schiller Institute is happy to inaugurate a new feature on our website. We will regularly post selections of Beethoven’s music with short discussions of the pieces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friedrich Schiller’s beautiful words from his poem „Ode To Joy“<\/em> are magnificently memorialized in the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Freude, sch\u00f6ner G\u00f6tterfunken,<\/em> English Translation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning, Schiller’s words and Beethoven’s music speak to us even more passionately and powerfully today, in these times of pandemic disease, famine, economic crisis social unrest, and the threat of war. Let us take Schiller and Beethoven to our hearts and minds and forge a new paradigm of peace and development for all humanity. Listen, and let Beethoven instruct us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 16, 2020 marks the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. As part of the international celebrations this year and next year, in honor of Beethoven, the Schiller Institute is happy to inaugurate a new feature on our website. We will regularly post selections of Beethoven’s music with short discussions of the pieces. Friedrich Schiller’s beautiful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":63757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,1],"tags":[616,617,618],"class_list":["post-63756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","tag-beethoven","tag-culture","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63901,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63756\/revisions\/63901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, den Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Br\u00fcder,
Wo dein sanfter Fl\u00fcgel weilt.
Seid umschlungen Millionen!
Diesen Ku\u00df der ganzen Welt!
Br\u00fcder – \u00fcberm Sternenzelt
Mu\u00df ein lieber Vater wohnen. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daughter of Elysium,
Fire drunken we are ent\u2019ring
Heavenly, thy holy home!
Thy enchantments bind together,
What did custom stern divide,
Every man becomes a brother,
Where thy gentle wings abide.
Chorus.
Be embrac\u2019d, ye millions yonder!
Take this kiss throughout the world!
Brothers\u2014o\u2019er the stars unfurl\u2019d
Must reside a loving Father.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n