As an unintended consequence, the soundtrack to one of the films — Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — renders Alex unable to listen to his beloved classical music.

In this movie a young female music student hired by Beethoven to copy out his Ninth Symphony is staying at a monastery.

The Ninth Symphony was premiered on 7 May 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, along with the Consecration of the House Overture and the first three parts of the Missa Solemnis.

This capacity was reportedly specified by Sony executive Norio Ohga so as to be able to contain the entirety of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc.

Beethoven's friendship with Dragonetti may have inspired him to write difficult, separate parts for the double bass in his symphonies, such as the impressive passages in the third movement of the Fifth Symphony, the second movement of the Seventh Symphony, and last movement of the Ninth Symphony.

The scherzo and trio from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are famous orchestral excerpts, as is the recitative at the beginning of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

The main theme of the finale of the First Symphony is also reminiscent of the main theme of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth, and when this resemblance was pointed out to Brahms, he replied that any ass – jeder Esel – could see that.

* 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria.

Carlos and Moog's vocoder was featured in several recordings, including the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange in which the vocoder sang the vocal part of Beethoven's " Ninth Symphony ".

* Segments of the Ode to Joy, the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

** Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a concert featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

The increasingly deaf Beethoven led the performance, " assisted " by Michael Umlauf, who later performed the same task for Beethoven at the premiere of the Ninth Symphony.

He also pioneered the use of chorus as part of symphonic texture with his Ninth Symphony and Choral Fantasia.

Bruckner's symphonies are all in four movements ( though he was unable to complete the finale of the Ninth ), starting with a modified sonata allegro form, a slow movement in ABA ’ B ’ A ’’ form ( except in the Study Symphony, the First and the Sixth ), a scherzo in 3 / 4 time, and a modified sonata allegro form finale.

Bruckner took Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as his starting-point ....

The problem was that the Te Deum is in C major, while the Ninth Symphony is in D minor, and, although Bruckner began sketching a transition from the Adagio key of E major to the triumphant key of C major, he did not pursue the idea.

Internationally renowned composer Antonín Dvořák wrote his Ninth (" New World ") Symphony in 1893 based on his impressions of the region after visiting Omaha's robust Czech community.

The Ninth asks for a second pair of horns, for reasons similar to the " Eroica " ( four horns has since become standard ); Beethoven's use of piccolo, contrabassoon, trombones, and untuned percussion — plus chorus and vocal soloists — in his finale, are his earliest suggestion that the timbral boundaries of " symphony " might be expanded for good.

For example, the Schubert inspired variation is based on the Unfinished Symphony, and the Beethoven inspired variation includes vocal soloists and chorus and resembles Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

There are numerous references to this work in Beethoven's correspondence ( originally, he had planned the Ninth Symphony to be entirely instrumental, the Ode to Joy to be a separate cantata, and the Tenth Symphony to conclude with a different vocal work ).

The rebellion forces Charles to abandon the Ninth Crusade while still en route to the target city of Constantinople, and allows King Peter III of Aragon to take over rule of the island from Charles ( which in turn leads to Peter's excommunication by Pope Martin IV ).

The rebellion forces Charles to abandon the Ninth Crusade while still en route to the target city of Constantinople, and allows King Peter III of Aragon to take over rule of the island from Charles ( which in turn leads to Peter's excommunication by Pope Martin IV ).

The United States contributed two air forces to the battle, the Eighth Air Force with strategic bombers, and the Ninth Air Force for tactical airpower.

Ninth Army in Operation Grenade and First Army in Operation Veritable began a great pincer movement to destroy the remaining German forces west of the Rhine.

Ninth Army, on the south flank, took part in the great encirclement of German forces in the Ruhr.

After the Battle of Normandy and the retreat of German forces from the Paris area in August 1944, Orly was partially repaired by USAAF combat engineers and was used by Ninth Air Force as tactical airfield A-47.

These forces were supported by the Ninth Air Force, which had pin-pointed 75 % of the pillboxes along the frontlines and planned an opening bombardment including 360 bombers and 72 fighters ; fresh aircraft would be used for a second aerial wave, which included the use of napalm.

These readers may feel that to be able to enjoy Beethoven's music one must submit to or agree with the values expressed, or that it requires or forces upon the listener a mode or way of listening that is oppressive, and that these are overtly expressed, as rape, in the Ninth.

SHAEF also controlled substantial naval forces during Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Overlord, and two tactical air forces: the US Ninth Air Force and the RAF Second Tactical Air Force.

Whilst it pinned down the German forces facing it, the Canadian First Army and US Ninth Army made a pincer movement from north and south ( operations Veritable and Grenade ) which pierced the Siegfried Line in that area and cleared the remaining German forces west of the Rhine in conjunction with further American offensives in the south of the Rhineland.

By the end of 1945, both wartime air forces in the UK, the Eighth and Ninth were withdrawn.

The first responsibility for Ninth Army, upon its arrival on 5 September was to take part in the final reduction of the German forces holding out in the French port of Brest.

The USAAF Ninth Air Force, with a mission to support the ground forces, was about to be re-deployed to the UK and IX Troop Carrier Command was established immediately at Cottesmore after this became effective on 16 October 1943.

The Watervliet Arsenal forces NY 32 to curve northeasterly as Ninth Street.

The FAA's first administrator, Elwood R. Quesada, was a former U. S. Air Force general who commanded the early tactical air forces of the Ninth Air Force in Europe in World War II, and served as an advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Seeking revenge, the writer drugs Alex, locks him in a room, and forces him to listen to the Ninth Symphony, the effects of which Alex had mentioned in conversation.

This early Russian success in 1914 on the Austro-Russian border was a reason for concern to the Central Powers and caused considerable German forces to be transferred to the East to take pressure off the Austrians, leading to the creation of the new German Ninth Army.

Although Timoshenko's forces successfully regrouped on 21 May, he ordered a withdrawal of Army Group Kotenko by the end of 22 May, while he prepared an attack for 23 May, to be orchestrated by the Ninth and 57th Armies.

Because of the high speed of the advance of Konev's forces this meant Ninth Army was now threatened with envelopment by the two massive Soviet pincers that were heading for Berlin from the south and east.

Soviet forces ordered to attack Ninth Army numbered around 280, 000 men, 7, 400 guns and mortars, 280 tanks and self-propelled guns, and 1, 500 aircraft.

This was not difficult to deduce for the Soviet command as well, while on the other hand Ninth Army had virtually no information about the Soviet disposition of forces between it and Twelfth Army.