| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
1 audio file : digital. |
| Playing Time |
092633 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 135701 KB; MP3 file size: 266038 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Patrick Egan. |
| Note |
Duration: 09:26:33. |
| Summary |
"All men become brothers . . . Be embraced, ye millions!" The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven's mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon's wars... |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies, no. 9, op. 125, D minor.
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Music -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Music -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism in music.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Egan, Patrick (Screenwriter). Narrator.
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| Other Form: |
Source record: Sachs, Harvey, 1946- Ninth. Library ed. Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2010 9780307715708 (OCoLC)567359124 |
| Music No. |
8237-CD Books on Tape |
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