Beethoven's Ninth Premieres
1824
In a Vienna theater on a May evening, a deaf composer stood beside the conductor and beat time for a symphony he could not hear. At the end, a contralto turned him to face an audience whose ovation he had to be shown. The Ninth, with its Schiller ode to joy, remade what a symphony could be.
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Also in 1824 (3 other events on record)
- Battle of Ayacucho · South America · War
- Byron Dies at Missolonghi · Europe · Culture
- Iturbide Executed · North America · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.