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Ninth Symphony original

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Original – Page 12 (recto) of Ludwig van Beethoven's original Ninth Symphony manuscript.

Reason: High quality photo of an original manuscript. The 200th anniversary of this song's first performance is also coming up in May 7 (song was first performed in 7 May 1824), perhaps it can be POTD?
Articles in which this image appears: Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Symbols of the European Union, Christian music
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle
Creator: Ludwig van Beethoven

Support as nominator – Howard🌽33 16:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 17:11, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 01:58, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 06:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Why Page 12? I'm certainly for promoting Beethoven's 9th Syphony , but it feels a very arbitrary choice of page. Why not, say, the opening. or the start of the Ode to Joy? I'd support this as part of a complete set, but, on its own.... Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.7% of all FPs.} 12:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This was just the most widely used one, it appears in multiple articles and was the only page uploaded to commons. I am actually more willing to support a complete set if I knew how to download the high quality scans of the pages and then upload them to commons. – Howard🌽33 14:37, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, the page you suggested: [1] is bland, it has very little musical notation on it. At small thumbnail sizes (say at 400px), the nom image looks more like sheet music. Bammesk (talk) 02:34, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Random choice. Not a well-known extract. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheFreeWorld (talk) 12:02, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ninth Symphony original.png --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:27, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added image to Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:27, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]