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The key idea is recognizing nicknames that reflect a work’s distinctive features. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony earned the nickname Choral because its final movement includes a full chorus and vocal soloists singing Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy, a groundbreaking use of voices in a symphony. The other options refer to different works: Pastoral is Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, which evokes scenes of nature; Eroica is the Third Symphony, celebrated as a heroic, transformative piece; Pathetique is actually a well-known piano sonata, not a symphony.