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The Ninth is strongest when presenting historical facts or discussing artists and intellectuals that were Beethoven's contemporaries or later composers influenced by him. Unfortunately, it spends too much time on speculation (for example, there is an extended, imagined dialogue of Beethoven's thoughts at the premier of the symphony) and descriptions of personal feelings (we learn that Beethoven was for teenage Sachs his "Alpha and Omega," and Sachs describes how each change in the music makes him feel).