Amorphis - Moon And Sun

Take for example Hans von Bülow, the first star conductor. Not only because he trained the orchestra musicians, perfecting their play and forcing them to implicitly follow their ideas about the composition. No, he also decided what the public could listen to and what not. The matter went so far that, without hesitation, he threw the final choir with Ode to Joy out of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, believing that the composer took the wrong step, which, moreover, is not consistent with the rest of the parts and therefore can be omitted. Just imagine! The conductor corrects the composer, changes the original form of the work! It can be assumed what kind of storm would have risen in all the newspapers if the conductor decided on this today.