Volume 50, Number 12 · July 17, 2003
Beethoven Beyond Classicism
By Lewis Lockwood
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
by Maynard Solomon
University of California Press, 327 pp., $29.95
Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History
by Esteban Buch, translated from the French by Richard Miller
University of Chicago Press, 327 pp., $27.50
One autumn evening in 1821 or 1822 the artist Blasius Höfel was sitting with some friends at a tavern in Wiener Neu- stadt, a town near Vienna. Suddenly a local policeman appeared and announced that 'we have arrested somebody who will give us no peace. He keeps on yelling that he is Beethoven; but he's a ragamuffin, has no hat, an old coat,...nothing to identify him.'
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