Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/85307to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ninth Author: Harvey Sachs Narrator: Patrick Egan Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins Release date: 06-15-10 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 55 ratings Genres: History & Criticism Publisher's Summary: The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleon’s wars. Ironically, the premiere of this hymn to universal brotherhood took place in Vienna, the capital of a nation that Metternich was turning into the first modern police state.

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