Music and monumentality : commemoration and wonderment in nineteenth-century Germany / Alexander Rehding.

A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those...

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Main Author: Rehding, Alexander (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
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