Ideas
Essays on how Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Schiller’s Ode to Joy affect our lives today.
Please feel free to read these and post your comments at the bottom of the essays!
The Enduring Power of ‘Ode to Joy’ by Brad Sachs
On Joy by Margie Boudreaux
Spirituality and Brotherhood by Tom Kight
On the finale by Margie Boudreaux
Translation Symphony no. 9 Finale Text by Margie Boudreaux (pdf format)
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller - A pdf copy at filepedia.org of a work by the author of the “Ode to Joy” poem which describes his views on relationship of aesthetics and ethics. (Other writings at Project Gutenberg.)
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