Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception

by Malcolm Miller

Beethoven's music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context, communicates values of the Enlightenment bearing a seemingly universal, timeless significance. More than a quarter millenium after his birth, a 21st-century perspective offers a timely opportunity - against a backdrop of the reconfiguration of Europe and tensional power shifts across continents - to explore ways in which notions of European ideals impacted the works of Beethoven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503602908
• ISBN13: 9782503602905
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 410 Pages