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Political Beethoven

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  • "Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day."
  • ""Musicians, music lovers, and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration - at best, it is merely notorious; at worst, it is denigrated and ignored. In Political Beethoven Nicholas Mathew returns to the musical and social contexts of the composer's political music throughout his career - from the early marches and anti-French war songs of the 1790s to the grand orchestral and choral works for the Congress of Vienna - to argue that this marginalized functional art has much to teach us about the lofty Beethovenian sounds that came to define serious music in the nineteenth century. Beethoven's much-maligned political compositions, Mathew shows, lead us into the intricate political and aesthetic contexts that shaped all of his oeuvre, thus revealing the stylistic, ideological, and psycho-social mechanisms that gave Beethoven's music such a powerful voice - a voice susceptible to repeated political appropriation, even to the present day."--Jacket."

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"

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  • "Political Beethoven"

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