By Constantin Floros
With this research the writer «opened up a formerly locked door of Beethoven learn» (Martin Geck). The publication offers conclusive solutions to questions that had occupied critics for greater than a century. It makes transparent what precisely Beethoven and his contemporaries intended through the time period «heroic». It proves that the «heroic-allegorical ballet» The Creatures of Prometheus is a key paintings for an realizing of the Eroica, and exhibits that Beethoven linked the 1st Consul of the French Republic, Napoleon Bonaparte, with the legendary determine of the Titan Prometheus. The ebook attracts on interdisciplinary researches within the components of Greek Mythology, Napoleonic historical past and Comparative Literature.
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