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Beethoven after Napoleon : political romanticism in the late works /

In this 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. Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted views by ill...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Rumph, Stephen C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Collection:California studies in 19th century music ; 14.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A kingdom not of this world
  • The heroic sublime
  • Promethean history
  • 1809
  • Contrapunctus I: prelude and fugue
  • Contrapunctus II: double fugue
  • Androgynous utopias
  • Vox populi, vox dei
  • A modernist epilogue.