{"product_id":"political-beethoven-new-perspectives-in-music-history-and-criticism","title":"Political Beethoven (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)","description":"Musicians, music lovers and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration; at best, it is merely notorious, at worst, it is denigrated and ignored. In Political Beethoven Nicholas Mathew returns to the musical and social contexts of the composer's political music throughout his career – from the early marches and anti-French war songs of the 1790s to the grand orchestral and choral works for the Congress of Vienna – to argue that this marginalized functional art has much to teach us about the lofty Beethovenian sounds that came to define serious music in the nineteenth century. Beethoven's much-maligned political compositions, Mathew shows, lead us into the intricate political and aesthetic contexts that shaped all of his oeuvre, thus revealing the stylistic, ideological and psycho-social mechanisms that gave Beethoven's music such a powerful voice – a voice susceptible to repeated political appropriation, even to the present day.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1316616290\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1316616290.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mathew, Nicholas\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43333618663485,"sku":"BVV.1316616290.VG","price":29.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/political-beethoven-new-perspectives-in-music-history-and-criticism","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}