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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 B79
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Available