Beethoven in Russia: music and politics

Prelude. Music in the Tsar's Gulag

PART I. RUSSIA BEFORE 1917. Encountering Beethoven : Salon and Concert Hall ; Engaging Beethoven : Writer and Critic ; Evaluating Beethoven : From Freude to Freiheit ; Embracing Beethoven : Concert Hall and Riverbank

PART II. RUSSIA AFTER 1917. Beethoven as Revolutionary : Red Star Rising ; Beethoven as Icon : Cult and Canon ; Beethoven as Beethoven : The End of Ideology

Postlude. Project Gulag 2010.