Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works

by Stephen Rumph

In this provocative analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Impressive in its breadth of research as well as for its devotion to interdisciplinary work in music history, Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted views by illustrating the influence of German Romantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238559
• ISBN13: 9780520238558
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"