Ludwig van Beethoven: "Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre"

Performer: Schiller Institute Chorus, Camerata Geminiani Orchester and Friends
Conductor: Ingo Bathow
With this concert, we contribute to realizing Giuseppe Verdi’s wish to bring musical tuning back to where it was when the classical composers lived. The standard pitch gradually been raised to the point where it is practically one tone higher today than it was 200 years ago. Had Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and others wanted to have their works played one tone higher, they would have written them that way. In fact, the specific characteristics of the human singing voice and of the human body, as well as the proportions in nature and the universe suggest that there does exist a scientific tuning.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Schiller Institute launched an international petition to lower the standard pitch from an arbitrary a = 440-450Hz to an a = 432Hz, as called for by Giuseppe Verdi. The petition gathered signatures from thousands of the top classical singers of the day, including Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Monserrat Caballé, Kurt Moll, Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi and Piero Cappuccilli, just to name a few. Defense of the classical tradition of bel canto singing was at the center of the campaign. As Guiseppe Verdi himself wrote in February 1884, he favored “a single pitch for the entire musical world”, adding that the lower tuning gives the sonority “something more noble, more full and majestic than the shrieks a high pitch could ever give.”
The campaign for Verdi’s “scientific tuning” led to an international music symposium in Casa Verdi/Milan on April 9, 1988, during which the difference between usual tuning of today and the natural Verdi tuning was conclusively demonstrated. It made clear that the principles of music and science cannot be separated, and also that changing the register shifts (passagio) creates a problem not only for the singing voice, but also for musical instruments.
Thus, the optimal resonance of the famous Stradivari violin “Il Cremonese” lies at C = 256Hz (a = 432Hz), as analyzed by the International Institute for Violin making in Cremona. Norbert Brainin, the first violin of the legendary Amadeus String Quartett, who supported the Schiller Institute campaign, demonstrated the contrast between the different concert pitches, including at a concert in Munich’s Max-Joseph-Saal in 1988. Brainin also conducted several master classes with the Schiller Institute in the 1990s on the subject of thorough composition and tuning.
Just recently the Schiller Institute campaign again inspired a number of important initiatives in Italy. In Roncole, Verdi’s birthplace, a yearly festival in the Verdi tuning began last year (www.nuovoverdianeum.it). And the grand-niece of Verdi, Gaia Maschi Verdi, brought her grand-uncle’s piano from the Barezzo House/Bussetto to Teatro Argentina in Rome on June 6, to remain there on exhibition until Dec. 31. This piano (Carol Otto, Berlin) is tuned at a = 432Hz. For more on the subject, see www.teatrodiroma.net/doc/4331/verdi-e-I-italia.

[@anmi9038]

Ludwig van Beethoven einer der grossen Komponisten Deutschlands

[@silviaschaffara4808]

Als ich dies so edle Lied gehört und sofort geliebt habe, wurde es von Heino gesungen. Mein Vater hat es auch sehr geliebt. Es ist ein wirklich mächtiges Gefühl, beim zuhören. ❤

[@geli23]

Habe ich vor mehr als 25 Jahren im Chor gesungen. Und die Melodie ist mir tatsächlich im Kopf geblieben und kann sie noch mitsummen. Sehr schön 🥰

[@eva-mariacoughlin9456]

Psalm 19- isn’t it beautiful! Einfach herrlich, zu dem Künstler Gott der diese schöne Welt und das All gemacht hat! Preise sei Him von jedem Herzen! Sei gepreist und geehrt mein Lieber Gott! While I was in nursing school, every morning before going to classes i listened to this beautiful, Gott lobendes Lied!

[@christaulrich3433]

Wunderschön! Hat meine Mutter oft gesungen! Ist sehr vlel Wehmut damit verbunden zumal mein Michael heute seinen 60.ten Geburtstag hätte🙏 leider an Corona verstorben ist. Die Seele leidet ganz furchtbar

[@Cherubini47]

As long as Beethoven's music is live and heard all over the world, the dream of the victory of the humanity over the dark force of evil will remain live and strong until the day of salvation.

[@heinzchmielorz477]

Die Himmel rümen des Ewige Leben

[@heinzchmielorz477]

Die Himmel rühmen des

[@mariabackt5677]

Ergreifend vielen Dank

[@sallytruman9049]

I sang this beautiful song in a school choir a long time ago and never knew who wrote it. Beautiful and speaking to a man's spirit

[@mkatharinadewes2272]

mein absolutes lieblingslied !

[@23Hope]

Wunderbar herzlichen Dank mir fehlen die Worte weil sie nicht ausreichend gut sind für dieses edle Lied. Danke Gottes Segen 🙏

[@dawnlowenstein7277]

I LOVE THIS SELECTION PLUS THE GERMAN LYRICS BEING SUNG!

[@dawnlowenstein8825]

I LOVE THIS PIECE BY LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN! And the German lyrics add so much to this musical piece!

[@babutemplert1980]

Gänsehaut!!!

[@isaiasgm01]

Muito lindo Deus continue abençoando

[@belkismartin7019]

Magnífico!!!! Gracias.Buenas noches🌿

[@lorraineseely3868]

Beautiful performance!!

[@korbinian2002]

Ich habe Mühe das göttliche Wort zu vernehmen. Aber der Gesang ist magnifique

[@Jame243]

AMEN!!!! Ausgezeichnet!!! Very powerful!!!!

[@madeleinefellauer3534]

Haben Sie schon die anderen Konzerte auf unserem KZbin Kanal gesehen? Sie dürfen gerne mitmachen! Did you see the other concerts on our youtube channel? You're welcome to join!

[@belkismartin7019]

Que maravilla!!!! Grandes voces magnífico todo. 🌿🍁🌿

[@madeleinefellauer3534]

Are you in touch with the Schiller Institute? Here is the spanish website: www.schillerinstitute.org/spanish/index.html

[@Joe-of1ob]

The heavens announce the glory of the Lord!

[@saxaobr]

Absolutamente espetacular!!!! Tanto a obra quanto a interpretação!

[@laurentsaillard3003]

magnifique

[@dawnlowenstein8825]

I LOVE this musical piece composed by Ludwig van Beethoven! The German version of this song is lovely!

[@dr.sigridrieke7870]

Großartige Musik. Macht aus uns bessere Menschen.müßt nur zuhören und die Augen schließen SR

[@michaelcollier2527]

this was my solo piece for my senior voice jury in college

[@Wunderknabe76]

Sehr schön!

[@JSzulwic]

Ten utwór został wykonany podczas otwarcia Politechniki Gdańskiej w 1904 roku, która teraz obchodzi 120 lat istnienia. Nauka i muzyka łączy.

[@sigibaerodilio]

Eine der besten Aufnahmen des Stückes

[@wolfrem7667]

Liegt wohl am Kammerton 432 Hz.

[@kurtbofinger9530]

Just listened to this after watching the total eclipse 8 April 2024

[@daljitsaimbee2444]

Eine herrliche Komposition, ein guter Text, aber leider keine gute Aufnahme.

[@francescadarimini6476]

Some of the sopranos around 5:20 are __way__ off pitch.

[@heliconstantin1032]

At 5:20 the piece was already over ...😀

[@kurtkneringer1404]

6

[@andrewbentley849]

Very strange. This piece was written in 2 - not 4.

[@dircetecedor3271]

para min o ausyriaco o mehor obrigada

[@simontaylor2319]

Please would someone download the Huddersfield Choral Society's superlative rendition of this magnificent hymn. The above does not do Beethoven justice - ponderous, out of tune, wrong notes.......shame. I can imagine Ludwig sitting listening to this with one hand over his eyes or both over his ears, becoming more and more angry

[@mariarosolemos7468]

nonsense! - its beautiful!

[@raoullevan6550]

Đến Text auswendig lernen und singen waere besser.

[@AbdulKMuzni]

so bad

[@stubbsmusic543]

Awful. Boring.