Symphony No. 9
The first symphony with a choral finale; its 'Ode to Joy' is now the anthem of Europe
- Author
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Style
- Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past
- Century
- 19th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1830 Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix · Romanticism · Paris
- c. 1831 The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Katsushika Hokusai · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- c. 1823–1831 Eugene Onegin — Alexander Pushkin · Romanticism · Boldino (where completed)
- c. 1818 Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — Caspar David Friedrich · Romanticism · Dresden
- 1818–1819 The Raft of the Medusa — Théodore Géricault · Romanticism · Paris
- c. 1831 Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji) — Katsushika Hokusai · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- c. 1833–1834 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō — Utagawa Hiroshige · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1814 The Third of May 1808 — Francisco Goya · Romanticism · Madrid
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- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna
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- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo
- 1816 Year Without a Summer