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Author(s): John Clubbe

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 27.60 MB

Year: 2019

Language: english

SKU: EB-50377716 Category: Biography Autobiography Film Television Music Tags: Beethoven, John Clubbe, Relentless, Revolutionary

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Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven’s political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions. Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafés and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of twenty-one to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon. As Napoleon had made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, so Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. He went beyond the musical forms of Haydn and Mozart, notably in the Eroica Symphony and his opera Fidelio, both inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon. 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—among them Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya.

Table contents:

1. Beethoven in Bonn
2. Key Influences: Schiller and Schneider
3. Two Cantatas
4. The French Revolution
5. Brutus and the Egyptian Mysteries
6. Hapsburg Vienna
7. Beethoven’s Vienna
8. Beethoven as Traveler and Composer
9. The Rise of Napoleon
10. Parallel Lives, Beethoven and Napoleon
11. The Rise of Beethoven
12. The Eroica: Meaning and Dedication
13. The Eroica in Its Literary and Artistic Contexts: Seume’s Walk to Syracuse and Mähler’s Portrait of Beethoven
14. Toward Beethoven’s 1808 Akademie
15. Napoleon in Vienna in 1809; Beethoven Befriends Baron de Trémont
16. Composing Egmont
17. Bacchus Triumphant: The Seventh Symphony—the Eighth—Wellington’s Victory
18. Fidelio
19. The Congress of Vienna and Its Aftermath
20. Beethoven Close Up, 1817–20
21. Napoleon’s Death, Rossini’s Rise
22. Beethoven and Grillparzer
23. The Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony
24. Music at the End
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Beethoven’s Works
General Index
Also by John Clubbe
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