The Beethoven Mystery Why haven't we figured out his Ninth Symphony yet?

Beethoven kills! (in a good way) See this article

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2003/06/the_beethoven_mystery.html


excerpt:

"Famously, the Ninth first emerges from a whispering mist to towering, fateful proclamations. The finale's Joy theme is almost constructed before our ears, hummed through, then composed and recomposed and decomposed. The Ninth is music about music, about its own emerging, about its composer composing. And for what? "This kiss for all the world!" runs the telling line in the finale, in which Beethoven erected a movement of epic scope on a humble little tune that anybody can sing. "