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Political Beethoven explores Beethoven's music as an active participant in political life from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day.

How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the e

This absorbing book chronicles the exploitation of Beethoven's life and work by German political parties from the founding of the modern nation in 1870 to the p

This book discusses the political content of music over the past 200 years, from the classical to the hip-hop genres and everything in between. Beginning with B

"It was high time that someone tried to explain more fully, and on the basis of the known documents, the course of Beethoven's meteoric rise to fame in Vienna a