Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in Bonn
where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university.
At the age of twenty-one, he moved to Vienna to study with Haydn,
gaining renown as a master pianist and innovative composer. In the
capital of the Hapsburg Empire, authorities were watchful to
curtail and punish displays of radical political views.
Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the rise of Napoleon and
his republican reforms. As Napoleon had liberated Europe from
aristocratic oppression, Beethoven desired to liberate music and
mankind itself. Through Beethoven's letters, portraits and other
personal papers, and by setting him alongside the major artists of
the time, John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven's role as a lifelong
revolutionary.
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