By Joshua Barone Even if you don’t know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, you probably know its finale, the famous “Ode to Joy ... he wrote in a letter, “the empire of the mind,” which ...

Analyzing hundreds of letters written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt throughout their lives, a European economist found that years in which the letters expressed ...

And, said Swafford, it's no coincidence that the symphony's final movement, the triumphal "Ode to Joy," has long been ... "He wrote this letter, which is partly a suicide note and partly a stateme ...