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In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Impressive in its breadth of research as well as for its devotion to interdisciplinary work in music history, Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted views by illustrating the influence of German Romantic political thought in the formation of the artist's mature style. Beethoven's political views, Rumph argues, were not quite as liberal as many have assumed. While scholars agree that the works of the Napoleonic era such as the Eroica Symphony or Fidelio embody enlightened, revolutionary ideals of progress, freedom, and humanism, Beethoven's later works have attracted less political commentary. Rumph contends that the later works show clear affinities with a native German ideology that exalted history, religion, and the organic totality of state and society. He claims that as the Napoleonic Wars plunged Europe into political and economic turmoil, Beethoven's growing antipathy to the French mirrored the experience of his Romantic contemporaries. Rumph maintains that Beethoven's turn inward is no pessimistic retreat but a positive affirmation of new conservative ideals.
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"A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of the subject, reinterpreting overly familiar music in striking new ways. Wonderful critical and interpretive observations abound; the author writes with great imagination and flair."--Scott Burnham, author of Beethoven Hero
"Rumph shows at last the extent to which Beethoven's late period, the period of his most spiritual and 'inward' music, was a response to political change. In effect his book is an extended retort to E. T. A. Hoffmann's two-centuries-old claim that Beethoven's kingdom was not of this world--and it's about time! Rumph's argument will be resisted by Hoffmann's many heirs; but it is most compelling, not least because it answers so many long-standing questions about 'the music itself' and clears up so many misconceptions about the nature of musical romanticism."--Richard Taruskin, Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Impressive in its breadth of research as well as for its devotion to interdisciplinary work in music history, Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted views by illustrating the influence of German Romantic political thought in the formation of the artist's mature style. Beethoven's political views, Rumph argues, were not quite as liberal as many have assumed. While scholars agree that the works of the Napoleonic era such as the Eroica Symphony or Fidelio embody enlightened, revolutionary ideals of progress, freedom, and humanism, Beethoven's later works have attracted less political commentary. Rumph contends that the later works show clear affinities with a native German ideology that exalted history, religion, and the organic totality of state and society. He claims that as the Napoleonic Wars plunged Europe into political and economic turmoil, Beethoven's growing antipathy to the French mirrored the experience of his Romantic contemporaries. Rumph maintains that Beethoven's turn inward is no pessimistic retreat but a positive affirmation of new conservative ideals.
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"A brilliant and unfailingly provocative reading of Beethoven's music. Rumph challenges and refines our views of the subject, reinterpreting overly familiar music in striking new ways. Wonderful critical and interpretive observations abound; the author writes with great imagination and flair."--Scott Burnham, author of Beethoven Hero
"Rumph shows at last the extent to which Beethoven's late period, the period of his most spiritual and 'inward' music, was a response to political change. In effect his book is an extended retort to E. T. A. Hoffmann's two-centuries-old claim that Beethoven's kingdom was not of this world--and it's about time! Rumph's argument will be resisted by Hoffmann's many heirs; but it is most compelling, not least because it answers so many long-standing questions about 'the music itself' and clears up so many misconceptions about the nature of musical romanticism."--Richard Taruskin, Class of 1955 Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
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androgynous utopias, new cantus firmus, archaic counterpoint, upper subject, symphony review, recitative voice, danza tedesca, heroic sublime, assai sostenuto, symphony finale, adagio espressivo, double counterpoint, finale theme, grosse fuge, fugal theme, double fugue, ranz des vaches, bagpipe tune, late quartets, bridge theme, stile antico, fugal subject, heroic style, nobis pacem, sonata form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Fifth Symphony, Wellingtons Sieg, Kingdom Not of This World, Modernist Epilogue, Ehre Gottes, Choral Fantasy, C-sharp Minor, Diabelli Variations, French Revolution, Heiliger Dankgesang, Third Symphony, Cello Sonata, B-flat Major, Friedrich Wilhelm, Hammerklavier Sonata, Congress of Vienna, Sixth Symphony, Well-Tempered Clavier, Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, Critique of Judgment, Der Dichter, Don Giovanni, E-flat Major, Friedrich Schlegel New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Surprise Me!
Beethoven was a political composer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
androgynous utopias, new cantus firmus, archaic counterpoint, upper subject, symphony review, recitative voice, danza tedesca, heroic sublime, assai sostenuto, symphony finale, adagio espressivo, double counterpoint, finale theme, grosse fuge, fugal theme, double fugue, ranz des vaches, bagpipe tune, late quartets, bridge theme, stile antico, fugal subject, heroic style, nobis pacem, sonata form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ninth Symphony, Fifth Symphony, Wellingtons Sieg, Kingdom Not of This World, Modernist Epilogue, Ehre Gottes, Choral Fantasy, C-sharp Minor, Diabelli Variations, French Revolution, Heiliger Dankgesang, Third Symphony, Cello Sonata, B-flat Major, Friedrich Wilhelm, Hammerklavier Sonata, Congress of Vienna, Sixth Symphony, Well-Tempered Clavier, Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, Critique of Judgment, Der Dichter, Don Giovanni, E-flat Major, Friedrich Schlegel New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Surprise Me!