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Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

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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. 

Συγγραφέας: Kinderman William
Εκδότης: CHICAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 256
ISBN: 9780226669052
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2021

Preface

I.    A Tale of Two Cities: Bonn to Vienna

II.    The Sublime and Inverted Sublime

III.    Beethoven in Heiligenstadt

IV.    Path to the Eroica

V.    Leonore as “Angel of Freedom”

VI.    From Grätz to Wagram and Leipzig

VII.    A Double Chill: Beethoven in Metternich’s Vienna

VIII.    Then and Now: The Ninth Symphony


Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Examples
Note about Abbreviations
Sources and Documents
Index

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 BeethovenThe Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtág, and, most recently, Wagner’s “Parsifal.”

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