umschlungen

One was the part of the text that said, “Seid umschlungen, Millionen!” or “Be embraced you millions,” and the other was the tune Beethoven sets during the last movement for his famous “Ode to Joy.”

At Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Symphony Sings for Pakistan Flood Relief 2011

One was the part of the text that said, “Seid umschlungen, Millionen!” or “Be embraced you millions,” and the other was the tune Beethoven sets during the last movement for his famous “Ode to Joy.”

At Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Symphony Sings for Pakistan Flood Relief 2011

Whenever Wilhelm Furtwängler performed Beethoven's 9th, he would throw the finale the "Seid umschlungen, Millionen..." recapitulation into a mad tumble.

Archive 2006-07-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006

Whenever Wilhelm Furtwängler performed Beethoven's 9th, he would throw the finale the "Seid umschlungen, Millionen..." recapitulation into a mad tumble.

Christie's Messiah Patrick J. Smith 2006

In short, the concert-giver was in the best of spirits, one is every moment expecting him to exclaim: "Seid umschlungen Millionen, diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt."

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

O happy grooms, -- not clean as to shirts, nor especially neat in your conversation, but displaying a Wealth of art in India-ink upon your manly chests and the swelling muscles of your arms, and speaking in every movement your freedom from all conventional gyves and shackles, _ "seid umschlungen!"

Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

Fancy Dr Wiseman composing a pastoral to the air of 'Croppies, lie down,' or the Danish Minister writing a despatch to the inspiriting strains of 'Schleswig-Holstein meer-umschlungen.'

Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

a state of genuine ecstasy; for instance, I succeeded in demonstrating to the basses that the celebrated passage Seid umschlungen, Millionen, and especially Bruder, uber'm Sternenzelt muss ein guter Vater wohnen, could not be sung in an ordinary manner, but must, as it were, be proclaimed with the greatest rapture.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848