Symphony no. 9 [Ninth], in D minor

Published in 1823. as the project of setting Schiller's "Freude schoner Jotterfinken".

Listing of works performed at the Reid Concert or Reid Festival between 1865 and 1888 and printed in the 1888 Reid Concert Programme denotes probable first performance with Grand Orchestra in Scotland at the Reid Concert in 1879 (instrumental portion only).

A full essay 'Its place in Musical Art' and analysis on the Ninth Symphony appears in March 1922, repeated and updated in February 1923, taking 44 pages (11 pages of essay, 33 pages of analysis) of the Reid concert programme.  A supplementary precis appears in the Reid Concert programme of 10 March, 1932.

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