Flash Mob Performs “Ode an die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”)

On 19 May 2012, a flash mob performed “Ode an die Freude” (“Ode to Joy”) from the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Plaça de Sant Roc in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain:

In 1972, this musical piece was adopted, by the Council of Europe, as the European Anthem.