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Political Beethoven - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Hardcover, New)
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Political Beethoven - New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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