written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian FriedrichSchiller. It was published the following year in the German magazine Thalia
(Ode to Joy)", a poem written by FriedrichSchiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additional text written by Beethoven. In the 20th century, an instrumental
institute's stated aim is to apply the ideas of the poet and philosopher FriedrichSchiller to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis."[citation needed]
Michael Reinhold Lenz, H. L. Wagner, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and FriedrichSchiller were notable proponents of the movement