In the first movement of the symphony, for the last time he buried the hero and the heroic ideal once exalted in the Eroica. Now through Schiller he replaced that ideal with a new one: the perfected society that begins in the freedom, happiness, and moral enlightenment of each person, growing from inside outward to brothers and friends and lovers, from there in a mounting chorus outward to universal brotherhood, the world Schiller named for the ancient Classical paradise: Elysium.
Beethoven buried the hero and replaced him with inner peace and satisfaction; universal brotherhood - Elysium
