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Beethoven : a Political Artist in Revolutionary Times by William Kinderman is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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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. <br> 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,
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William Kinderman
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226669199
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Music, Historical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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