# The version of Ode to Joy that everyone knows

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**Created:** [February 22, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-version-of-ode-to-joy-that-everyone-knows/291422 "2005-02-22T22:16:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-version-of-ode-to-joy-that-everyone-knows/291422/1 "2005-02-22T22:16:40Z")

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I may be mistaken, but I suspect that there’s one version of Beethoven’s Ode And die Freude (from the ninth symphony) that has become popular and recognizable. At least to me; when I think of that song I hear a very powerful chorus belting out “_Freude, schöner Götterfunken, …_”

It seems to me it’s been in any number of movies as an attempt at dramatic or comedic effect.

Does anybody have a clue what I’m getting at? If so, whose performance is it that’s been used this way?

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**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-version-of-ode-to-joy-that-everyone-knows/291422/2 "2005-02-22T23:03:29Z")

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Don’t have my vinyl collection handy but I believe in _A Clockwork Orange_ the performance was by the London Philharmonic. Not sure whose performance was in _Die Hard._ I don’t immediately recall some of the other countless films.

Love the Glorious Ninth!