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An edition of Political Beethoven (2012)

Political Beethoven

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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."--Book Jacket.

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Political Beethoven
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Political Beethoven
2013, Cambridge University Press
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Political Beethoven
2013, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Political Beethoven
Political Beethoven
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Political Beethoven
Political Beethoven
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Political Beethoven
Political Beethoven
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
New perspectives in music history and criticism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780.92
Library of Congress
ML410.B42 M33 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25356288M
Internet Archive
politicalbeethov0000math
ISBN 13
9781107005891
LCCN
2012024504
OCLC/WorldCat
795909497

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