<P> At 79 minutes, one of the longest Ninths recorded is Karl Böhm's, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in 1981 with Jessye Norman and Plácido Domingo among the soloists . </P> <P> Many later composers of the Romantic period and beyond were influenced by the Ninth Symphony . </P> <P> An important theme in the finale of Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor is related to the "Ode to Joy" theme from the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . When this was pointed out to Brahms, he is reputed to have retorted "Any fool can see that!" Brahms's first symphony was, at times, both praised and derided as "Beethoven's Tenth". </P> <P> The Ninth Symphony influenced the forms that Anton Bruckner used for the movements of his symphonies . His Symphony No. 3 is in the same D - minor key as Beethoven's 9th and makes substantial use of thematic ideas from it . The colossal slow movement of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, "as usual", takes the same A--B--A--B--A form as the 3rd movement of Beethoven's symphony and also uses some figuration from it . </P>

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