Then the music becomes stronger from weak. From smooth, low and dull, it gradually develops into clear, strong, rhythmic and shocking. It shows that in ancient nature, life grew from scratch, from low to high, from weak to strong, and its development was unstoppable.
This process also includes the formation, survival and development of human beings, as well as the tenacious struggle with the extremely sinister nature. In the struggle, mankind has become stronger. The emergence of human beings is sacred and inevitable, and will surely become the master of nature.
The connotation of the first movement is like a condensed version of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The addition of chorus makes the whole music enter a sacred realm. Thoughts and emotions have sublimated, and all ugly things are ashamed under the light of thoughts. After a hard struggle, mankind finally got liberation, freedom and happiness, and finally entered a sacred and ideal world.
Ode to Joy, also known as Ode an die Freude in German, is a poem written by German poet Schiller in 1785.
Beethoven composed music for this purpose, which became the main part of the fourth movement of his ninth symphony, including four independent parts, chorus and orchestra. Beethoven's music (excluding lyrics) has become the union song of the European Union and the national anthem of the European Council, and it has also been used as the melody of the national anthem "Raising the Voice of Rhodesia" of Rhodesia 1974- 1979.