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Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

Author: John Clubbe.

Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

Author: John Clubbe.

$39.95 $9.98
Item #: D23620
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393242553
As a young composer, Beethoven learned the basics from Haydn and Mozart, but as he matured artistically he was shaped by the Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas afoot in his hometown of Bonn. While Napoleon made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, a star-struck Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. Here John Clubbe ill... More
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As a young composer, Beethoven learned the basics from Haydn and Mozart, but as he matured artistically he was shaped by the Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas afoot in his hometown of Bonn. While Napoleon made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, a star-struck Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. Here John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven as a lifelong revolutionary through his compositions, portraits, and writings, and by setting him alongside major cultural figures of the time, including Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya.

"A thoughtful cultural history that takes into account the times in which Beethoven lived and worked?and they were times of revolution."—Washington Post


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