Australia has once again voted Beethoven's Ode To Joy as the number one piece of music that makes them feel good. Every year for over two decades, ABC Classic has asked music lovers to nominate ...

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

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said the piece of music that best "sums up" his party is Beethoven's Ode to Joy ... The lyrics were adapted from a Friedrich Schiller poem celebrating unity ...

The bloc's website says: 'The melody used to symbolize the EU comes from the Ninth Symphony composed in 1823 by Ludwig Van Beethoven, when he set music to the 'Ode to Joy', Friedrich von Schiller ...