Kinderman William Kinderman

Beethoven (eBook, ePUB)

A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music explains its power and endurance.William Kinderman presents Beethoven as a civically engaged thinker faced with severe challenges. The composer lived through many tumultuous events the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Congress of Vienna among them. Previous studies of Beethoven have emphasized the importance of his personal suffering and inner struggles; Kinderman instead establishes that musical tensions in works such as the Eroica, the Appassionata, and his final piano sonata in C minor reflect Beethoven s attitudes toward the political turbulence of the era. Written for the 250th anniversary of his birth, Beethoven takes stock of the composer s legacy, showing how his idealism and zeal for resistance have ensured that masterpieces such as the Ninth Symphony continue to inspire activists around the globe. Kinderman considers how the Fifth Symphony helped galvanize resistance to fascism, how the Sixth has energized the environmental movement, and how Beethoven s civic engagement continues to inspire in politically perilous times. Uncertain times call for ardent responses, and, as Kinderman convincingly affirms, Beethoven s music is more relevant today than ever before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226669199
• Artikelnr.: 72271499

Autorenporträt

William Kinderman is professor of music and the Leo M. Klein and Elaine Krown Klein Chair in Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Beethoven, The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtág, and, most recently, Wagner's "Parsifal."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Plates
List of music Examples and Figures
Overture
1: The Bonn Years
2: The Path to Mastery, 1792-1798
3: Crises and Creativity, 1799-1802
4: The Heroic Style I, 1803-1806
5: The Heroic Style II, 1806-1809
6: Consolidation, 1810-1812
7: The Congress of Vienna Period, 1813-1815
8: The Hammerklavier Sonata, 1816-1818
9: Struggle, 1819-1822
10: Triumph, 1822-1824
11: The `Galitzin' Quartets, 1824-1825
12: The Last Phase, 1826-1827
Selected Bibliography
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index of Beethoven's Compositions
General Index

Rezensionen

...excellent life and works...outstanding, superbly produced ... Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music