• Lecture 2: Beethoven and Napoleon

  • Sep 17 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
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Lecture 2: Beethoven and Napoleon

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  • And here continues and concludes the full length lecture on Beethoven and Napoleon. A full transcript should also be available as the discussion continues in the complex performance history and the legacy of Beethoven's Fidelio. From its premiere to an audience of French occupation troops to its use by the Nazis, the shadow side of Beethoven's legacy mirrors that of Napoleon. Bombast and even terror are not seldom heard in the sound world of Beethoven and despite Napoleon's stabilisation of the Republican system his obsessive drive to conquest and battle proved his undoing and marked him as an occupier. Thank you for listening and a follow up full length lecture on Wagner and Meyerbeer will be posted within a week., also in two parts.

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