{"podcast":{"title":"Classical For Everyone","slug":"classical-for-everyone-7209001","podcast_index_feed_id":7209001,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/567485/rss","website_url":"https://classicalforeveryone.net","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/0/5/9/3059e749a6b3525c16c3140a3186d450/1400x1400_72_copy.jpg","author":"Peter Cudlipp","episode_count":87,"summary":"Five hundred years of incredible music. No expertise is necessary. All you need are ears. If you've ever been even slightly curious about classical music then this is the podcast for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T18:17:48.010656+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001"},"episode":{"title":"Beethoven's 9th Symphony","slug":"beethoven-s-9th-symphony","published_at":"2026-02-09T20:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001/beethoven-s-9th-symphony","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001","url":"https://341d0332-89c6-4d02-8970-d32b9a531d5b.libsyn.com/beethovens-9th-symphony","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/341d0332-89c6-4d02-8970-d32b9a531d5b/CFEP_158_Beethovens_9th.mp3?dest-id=4908285","summary":"It's Classical For Everyone's 1 st Birthday, so here's a personal favourite. This was the first time a choir and soloists had been added to a 'symphony'. Choral and orchestral music had been combined before but at the time there were quite rigid expectations of what a 'symphony' should be. That said there was a fascination amongst some parts of the Viennese audience with the way Ludwig van Beethoven seemed to be frequently tearing down traditions and replacing them with what somehow very often seemed to have been an innovation that was music's next natural step. And with the final movement of this symphony, Beethoven took that step. Suddenly there was singing.","meta_description":"It's Classical For Everyone's 1 st Birthday, so here's a personal favourite. This was the first time a choir and soloists had been added to a 'symphony'.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5104,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/classical-for-everyone-7209001/episodes/beethoven-s-9th-symphony/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001/beethoven-s-9th-symphony.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}