An die Hoffnung (op. 94)

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Song TitleAn die Hoffnung (op. 94) (Search)
Composer(s):Ludwig van Beethoven
Author(s):Christoph August Tiedge
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Hope; Angels; Asking; Branches; Celebrating; Celebrations; Clouds; Comfort; Crying; Death; Dreams; Dying; Eternity; Existentialism; Fate; Fulfilling; Gentle; God; Grief; Hope; Hoping; Humans; Light; Longing; Memory; Men; Midnight; Night; Personification: Memory; Promises; Puzzles; Questioning; Revealing; Sacred; Secrets; Silencing; Souls; Sun; Tears; Veiling; Voices; World
First LineOb ein Gott sei? (Search)
Average Duration8:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1813 - 1815 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15806
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsEnlightenment (Search)
Original LanguageGerman (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/80/IMSLP317274-PMLP100879-LvBeethoven_An_die_Hoffnung,_Op.94_BH_Werke.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/5sKj9T7JgWjP5ogfMqcDjW
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/an-die-freude-ode-to-joy/
Catalog DesignationOp. 94 (Search)
Range: B3 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyBb minor (Search)
Dedicated ToFürstin Maria Charlotte von Kinsky (Search)
Premiered By (Search)
NotesOnly Beethoven song that ends in a different key than it begins - Reid p. 14 (Search)
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