Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History Tapa blanda - 2004
de Esteban Buch; Richard Miller (Translator)
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One of the early critics of the Ode to Joy, perhaps made uncomfortable by its rugged grandeur, remarked that for Beethoven, deaf and nearing the end of his life, the act of composition had become very like dreaming.
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Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the government of Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in German concentration camps by the imprisoned, it also figured prominently at Mitterand's 1981 investiture.
In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Buch traces such complex and contradictory uses--and abuses--of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premier in 1824. Buch shows that Beethoven consciously drew on the tradition of European political music, with its mix of sacred and profane, military and religious themes, when he composed his symphony. But while Beethoven obviously had his own political aspirations for the piece--he wanted it to make a statement about ideal power--he could not have had any idea of the antithetical political uses, nationalist and universalist, to which the Ninth Symphony has been put since its creation. Buch shows us how the symphony has been "deployed" throughout nearly two centuries, and in the course of this exploration offers what was described by one French reviewer as "a fundamental examination of the moral value of art." Sensitive and fascinating, this account of the tangled political existence of a symphony is a rare book that shows the life of an artwork through time, shifted and realigned with the currents of history.Detalles
- Título Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History
- Autor Esteban Buch; Richard Miller (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 327
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London
- Fecha de publicación 2004-05-01
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226078243 / 0226078248
- Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6.04 x 0.76 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.34 x 1.93 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Beethoven, Ludwig van, Beethoven, Ludwig van - Influence
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002014831
- Dewey Decimal Code 784.278
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