Political Beethoven
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Political Beethoven
- Jaar:
- 2013
- Onderwerp:
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
18th Century (1701-1800)
19th Century (1801-1900)
Composer
Biography
Politics
Bonn (Germany)
Vienna (Austria) - Taal:
- Onbepaald
- Uitgever:
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.BIO BEET e (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9781107005891
- Paginering:
- 273
- Editie:
- 2
- Samenvatting:
- 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.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000018364
