#836: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee

[lutheranhymns]

Well, Beethoven would definitely qualify as a composer famous for other things, except one of the things he's most famous for is this melody--the choral part of the Ninth Symphony (and used as the anthem for the European Union because it's something everyone can unite around) (even the flash mobs). The original text associated with this song is a poem by Schiller addressed to a personification of Joy (not necessarily in a Christian context, although apparently it's too Christian for some people). So this isn't a translation so much as "using the same image as a jumping-off point," I would guess.