"Politik." . . "Musik." . . "MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician" . . "Glasba Politični vidik." . . "Musique et politique Histoire." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History"@en . "History" . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . . "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." . "Political Beethoven"@en . "Political Beethoven" . . . . "Muzyka aspekt polityczny." . . . .