Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the piece of music that best "sums up" his party is Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Speaking to Classic FM, he said the symphony had a "sense of destiny and is ...

Indie folk sensation Conor Oberst used the melody to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy as an inspiration for this ... lifted the chords for the verse of the song from the slow movement of Rachmaninov ...

The original poem, written in 1785 by German Friedrich Schiller, was immortalized in 1824 when Ludwig van Beethoven used an ...

The finale, Ode To Joy, scored for choir and soloists alongside the orchestra has become one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music. Ode To Joy has accompanied some of the world's most ...