Beethoven as a revolutionary in Red Vienna
The workers’ music movement in Vienna during the first decades of the 20th century forged a new connection between politics and music. This social-democratic movement appropriated works from the bourgeois music canon and reinterpreted them according to their own terms. The musicologist Golan Gur has investigated the consequences this has had for a historical and […] Continue reading “Beethoven as a revolutionary in Red Vienna”