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Beethoven's Eroica: Thematic Studies. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

By Ernest , Constantin; Bernhardt-Kabisch , Floros

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2012
ISBN
3631628323, 978-3-631-62832-4, 978-3-653-02398-5, 365302398X
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02398-5
Language
englishgerman
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4243677 bytes)
Edition
Rep Exp
Pages
150\150
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

With this study the author «opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research» (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for more than a century. It makes clear what exactly Beethoven and his contemporaries meant by the term «heroic». It proves that the «heroic-allegorical ballet» The Creatures of Prometheus is a key work for an understanding of the Eroica, and shows that Beethoven associated the First Consul of the French Republic, Napoleon Bonaparte, with the mythical figure of the Titan Prometheus. The book draws on interdisciplinary researches in the areas of Greek Mythology, Napoleonic History and Comparative Literature

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