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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 <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the go
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- Author
- Buch, Esteban, 1963-; Miller, Richard
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226078120
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, Classical, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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