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Beethoven’s «Eroica»

Thematic Studies. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

by Constantin Floros (Author)
©2013 Monographs VI, 144 Pages

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
VI, 144
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653023985
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631628324
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02398-5
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (December)
Keywords
Symphonik Ballettmusik altgriechische Mythologie Oden an Bonaparte Prometheus Viganò, Salvatore Napoleon Bonaparte
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. VI, 144 pp., 11 fig.

Biographical notes

Constantin Floros (Author)

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Hamburg. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, about Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, and Alban Berg. Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.

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