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Beethoven's Ninth : a political history /

Title:
Beethoven's Ninth : a political history /
Author:
Buch, Esteban, 1963-
Published:
Chicago : 2003.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Introduction : The states of joy -- The birth of modern political music. God save the King and the Handel cult ; La Marseillaise and the "Supreme Being" ; The Ode to joy and the Emperor's anthem ; Beethoven and the Concert of Europe ; The Ninth symphony -- Political reception of the Ode to joy. The romantic cult ; The 1845 ceremony at Bonn ; The Ninth in the era of nationalist movements ; The 1927 centenary ; Beethoven as Führer ; From year zero to the European anthem ; From apartheid's anthem to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall -- Conclusion : Criticism and future of a dream.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML410.B4 B79Available