Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

Author : John Clubbe

Hardback

Published : Tuesday 9 July 2019

ISBN : 9780393242553

Price : €36.15

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Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

by John Clubbe

Hardback

09 Jul 2019

MUSIC
>> Individual Composer AND Musician

€36.15

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Beethoven's political ideals, inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon, radiate through his ground-breaking compositions.

Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in Bonn where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. At the age of twenty-one, he moved to Vienna to study with Haydn, gaining renown as a master pianist and innovative composer. In the capital of the Hapsburg Empire, authorities were watchful to curtail and punish displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the rise of Napoleon and his republican reforms. As Napoleon had liberated Europe from aristocratic oppression, Beethoven desired to liberate music and mankind itself. Through Beethoven's letters, portraits and other personal papers, and by setting him alongside the major artists of the time, John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven's role as a lifelong revolutionary.

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