Political Beethoven
Nicholas Mathew · 2013
על הספר
"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.
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2013
- שפה
- English
- סדרה
- New perspectives in music history and criticism
- הוצאה
- Cambridge University Press
- מהדורות
- 7
- עמודים
- 292
- ISBN
- 9781107005891
מקור הנתונים: Wikidata
