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Subject:
Ode to Joy
From:
Ray Bayles <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:33:45 -0700
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I thought Beethoven did a lot of "poetic translation" on the Ode to Joy...
He couldn't make the Schiller work fit the music, so he translated the
poetry to fit his music.

At least I could never make the Schiller work fit the transcription I had
about 40 years ago.

Ray Bayles

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