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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      20 December 2012
      ISBN:
      9780511794483
      9781107005891
      9781316616291
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794483
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Music Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music
      Series:
      New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
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    Subjects:
    Music, Music Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music
    Series:
    New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
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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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    'In this meticulously researched volume, the author offers many intriguing points.'

    Source: CHOICE

    In writing Political Beethoven, Nicholas Mathew has provided a thoroughly-researched and fascinating look at the composer’s lesser-known works, giving a vivid description of the music, criticism, and theatricality of the period surrounding the Congress of Vienna.’

    Jane Riegel Ferencz Source: Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

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