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A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions.
Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon.
As Napoleon had made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, so Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. He went beyond the musical forms of Haydn and Mozart, notably in the Eroica symphony and his opera Fidelio, both inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon.
John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven as a lifelong revolutionary through his compositions, portraits, and writings, and by setting him alongside major cultural figures of the time - among them Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya.
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The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven's career, placing his music in contexts that shed light on why particular pieces are valued more than others, and what this tells us about his larger-than-life reputation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Laura Turnbridge is an excellent author & narrator
- De Alex Scriabin en 04-25-23
De: Laura Tunbridge
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent book
- De ML en 10-09-20
De: Alex Ross
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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Machiavelli
- The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
- De: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Tester
- De Iván en 04-09-24
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Natasha's Dance
- A Cultural History of Russia
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 29 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kaleidescopic panorama of an enigmatic culture.
- De Tarquin en 02-13-19
De: Orlando Figes
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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Rites of Spring
- The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
- De: Modris Eksteins
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War", as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
De: Modris Eksteins
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Incarnations
- India in Fifty Lives
- De: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans - some famous, some unjustly forgotten - bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen, the author is biased
- De Anonymous User en 02-15-19
De: Sunil Khilnani
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The Florentines
- From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruins the narrative
- De amavita en 03-24-22
De: Paul Strathern
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
- A Brief Account of a Long Life
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank - Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Content
- De Sean P. Whiteley en 07-01-20
De: Gretchen Rubin
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Secret Germany
- Stauffenberg and the True Story of Operation Valkyrie
- De: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff insider with open eyes (and access to the Fuhrer), was convinced that assassinating Hitler was the only way to prevent the destruction of the Fatherland and the deaths of millions. On July 20, he hid a bomb-stuffed briefcase at a high-level meeting. The explosion tore through the room, but a table leg spared Hitler from the blast. The result was a witch hunt, a wave of executions, and a further pointless year of war. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh deliver an exhilarating and definitive portrait of the anti-Nazi movement (called "Secret Germany") that almost killed Hitler. Secret Germany is the story of "World War II's boldest plot-that-failed" (Time), a coup that was a moral and spiritual necessity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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False Advertising
- De Alan en 02-26-13
De: Michael Baigent, y otros
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The Ornament of the World
- How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
- De: Maria Rosa Menocal, Harold Bloom - foreword
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Widely hailed as a revelation of a "lost" golden age, this history brings to vivid life the rich and thriving culture of medieval Spain, where, for more than seven centuries, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in an atmosphere of tolerance, and literature, science, and the arts flourished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De Zahid Ahmad en 08-14-18
De: Maria Rosa Menocal, y otros
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- De: William Egginton
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from studying too many novels of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That story, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- De LCorSMT en 06-21-23
De: William Egginton
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Socrates
- A Man for Our Times
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Paul Johnson’s books have been translated into dozens of languages. In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates transcended class limitations in Athens during the fifth century B.C. to develop ideas that still shape the way we think about the human body and soul, including the workings of the human mind.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Plat-Soc-Paul
- De Megasaurus en 11-17-12
De: Paul Johnson
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Marx's General
- The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
- De: Tristram Hunt
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the 19th century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not many choices here anyways.
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 02-16-13
De: Tristram Hunt
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Germany
- A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000
- De: Helmut Walser Smith
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 20 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
For nearly a century, historians have depicted Germany as a rabidly nationalist land, born in a sea of aggression. Not so, says Helmut Walser Smith, who, in this groundbreaking 500-year history, challenges traditional perceptions of Germany's conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than 20th-century historians have imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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interesting but unbalanced and somewhat biased
- De Joseph Sullivan en 11-10-21