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Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works.(Book Review)
Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works. By Stephen Rumph. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [ix, 295 p. ISBN 0-520-23855-9. $45.] Index.
Stephen Rumph's Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works tackles a vitally important topic: the relation of the music to its political context. The pieces that come under consideration include the Third and Ninth Symphonies and Fidelio, as well as the Egmont music, a number of sonatas and quartets, some of Beethoven's patriotic songs and marches, and particularly his "Battle Symphony" from 1813, Wellingtons Sieg. As the author rightly states in his introduction, ...
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