Mats Norrman writes:

>Speaking about the march in Beethoven 9 - it is a great joke.  Imagine
>writing world historys most serious symphony, and then comes this!!
>I consider it an example of hte masters most contraversial humour -
>and humour is a value in Beethoven.

Being a person who does not care for humor in music and likely does a poor
job of recognizing it, I'm interested in what is humorous about the fourth
movement march.  I never noted anything funny about it, just that I felt it
was musically very effective.

Don Satz
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