The Creative Rivalry of Beethoven with Napoleon

Abstract

This essay explores Beethoven’s imaginative involvement with Napoleon. It argues that the Emperor never ceased to be an important influence on the composer and shows how Beethoven plotted his career along a Napoleonic trajectory, figuratively constructing himself first as rival and ultimately as inheritor to Napoleon.

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