A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven’s political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions.
Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafés and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of twenty-one to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
As Napoleon had made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, so Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. He went beyond the musical forms of Haydn and Mozart, notably in the Eroica Symphony and his opera Fidelio, both inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon.
John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven as a lifelong revolutionary through his compositions, portraits, and writings, and by setting him alongside major cultural figures of the time―among them Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya. 8 pages of color illustrations

Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

Biographies & Memoirs

CLUBBE, JOHN

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

Froude's Life of Carlyle

Community & Culture

Ohio State University

Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sully's Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with his discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait's provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Receiving most attention are Thomas Lawrence and Sully, his American counterpart. The author gives the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early-nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. Later chapters offer a close reading of the portrait, arguing that Sully has given a visual interpretation truly worthy of his celebrated, controversial, and famously handsome subject.

Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture (Nineteenth Century Series)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Cincinnati Observed: Architecture and History (Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)

History

Americas

Ohio State Univ Pr

CINCINNATI OBSERVED: ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY (URBAN LIFE & URBAN LANDSCAPE)

Ohio State University Press

The English Romantic Poets (Reviews of Research)

The fourth edition of this classic bibliographic work covers scholarship on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The volume opens with a useful survey of the Romantic movement in England; the following chapters discuss editions, bibliographies, biographies, and criticism of each author and his works, as well as his influence and literary reputation.

Johnson, Mary Lynn

Modern Language Association of America

English Romanticism: The grounds of belief

Europe

Northern Illinois University Press

Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture (Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron)

Arts & Photography

Routledge

First published in 2005. Since the early nineteenth century, Byron, the man and his image, have captured the hearts and minds of untold legions of people of all political and social stripes in Britain, Europe, America, and around the world. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of the only portrait of Byron known to have been painted by a major artist. In private hands from 1826 until this day, Thomas Sulley’s Byron has never before been the subject of scholarly study. Beginning with the discovery of the portrait in 1999 and a 200-year narrative of the portrait’s provenance and its relation to other well-known Byron portraits, the author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT111118Anonymous. By John Clubbe. A burlesque of Morant's 'History of Colchester'.London : printed for M. Cooper, 1758. 31,[1]p. ; 4°

The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Villa of Wheatfield, in the County of Suffolk.

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