Reviews of Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989

This is a collection of reviews made of David B. Dennis, Beethoven in German Politics 1870-1989 (Yale University Press, 1996).

It includes:

• James R. Oestreich, "Beethoven as Idealist, Militarist, Whatever," The New York Times, 6 March 1996
• "Beethoven's slippery politics give a sharp twist to musical history," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (6 March 1996)
• Peter Aspden, "Purist strike wrong note," The Financial Times (London), 28/29 March 1996
• Maria Chiare Bonazzi, "Le mani su Beethoven," La Stampa (Turin),1 April 1996
• Ian Buruma, "Hijacking Beethoven," The Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 May 1996
• "An Ode Response: Alle Menschen werden Brueder?" The Guardian (London), 27 May 1996
• Patricia Elliot, "Books for the General Reader," The Beethoven Journal (Spring 1996, vol. 11, no. 1)
• Clive Davies, "Ode, dear, Ludwig pays the penalty," The Yorkshire Post, 6 June 1996
• Nicholas Till, "Tunes of Glory," New Statesman and Society, 7 June 1996
• Jeroen Koch, "Het gebruik van een genie," NRC Handelsblad (Amsterdam), 20 July 1996
• Barry Cooper, "Beethoven's political uses," BBC Music Magazine (August 1996)
• R. R. Smith, Choice (September 1996)
• Steven R. Cerf, "Books" Opera News (October 1996, vol. 61, No. 4)
• Eugen Weber, "Recommended Reading," The Key Reporter (Autumn 1996)
• Dennis Bartel, "Cover to Cover," Chamber Music (December 1996, vol. 13, no. 6)
• Michael H. Kater, "Hitler in der Oper?" Kurt Weill Newsletter (vol. 14, no. 1, 1996)
• "Buecher von unsern Lesern," DAAD (No. 4, December 1996)
• Michael H. Kater, American Historical Review, October 1997
• Peter Pulzer, Music & Letters, May 1997
• William Weber, Notes, vol. 53, no. 4, June 1997)
• David Imhoof, Weimar Listservice, February 1997
• Matthias Alexander, "Beethoven als Titan, Revolutionaer und nordischer Speer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 February 1997
• Celia Applegate, Central European History (vol. 30, no. 1, 1997)
• Sanna Pederson, Journal of the American Musicological Society (Summer-Fall, 1997, vol. 50 no. 2)
• Nicholas Vazsonyi, German Studies Review (vol. 20, no. 3, October 1998)
• Mark Evan Bonds, The Journal of Modern History (vol. 70, no. 1, March 1998)
• Christian Berger, Das historisch-politische Buch (no. 45, Nov/Dec 1998)