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100 1 $aMathew, Nicholas.
245 10 $aPolitical Beethoven /$cNicholas Mathew.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $axvii, 273 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
490 1 $aNew perspectives in music history and criticism
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: political collaborations -- Music between myth and history -- Beethoven's moments -- The sounds of power and the power of sound -- The inner public -- After the war.
520 $a"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."--Book Jacket.
600 10 $aBeethoven, Ludwig van,$d1770-1827$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBeethoven, Ludwig van,$d1770-1827$xAppreciation.
650 0 $aMusic$xPolitical aspects$xHistory.
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