Beethoven and His World

Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the range of Beethoven's importance and of our perennial fascination with him.


The contributors address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. Reinhold Brinkmann explores the post-revolutio...