About this title: Great as it is -- and, let's face it, it's the greatest symphony ever written -- the Ninth Symphony isn't Beethoven's greatest choral-orchestral work. His greatest choral-orchestral work, as Beethoven was the first to point out, was the Missa Solemnis. After all, the Ninth may be great through and through, but it's only choral-orchestral in the Finale while the Missa Solemnis is choral-orchestral all the time. Beyond that, the Ninth sets only an elevated drinking song by Schiller, while the Missa Solemnis sets the text of the Roman Catholic Mass. But at its core, the issue boils down to ...
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