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Re: Nielsen's String Quartet, Opus 5
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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:54:13 -0400
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Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>A propos of the Beethoven 9th, does its text actually mention peace?

The word "Friede" (peace) is absent from the 8-9 stanza text of Schiller's
"An die Freude" and, a fortiori, from the fragment set to music in the
Ninth Symphony."

Walter Meyer

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