Une vie de gloire et de souffrance

Le mythe de Beethoven sous la Troisieme Republique

by Marie Gaboriaud

Book cover: Une vie de gloire et de souffrance

Extent: 606 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Etudes de litterature des XXe et XXIe siecles

Series volume number: 65

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2017)

ISBN: 9782406062400

Price: $91.00

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France’s Third Republic misrepresented Beethoven when it turned him into a character whose values were foundational in the construction of the nation’s identity. This myth is found in a vast body of Beethovenian literature, which borrows from epic and hagiographic literature as much as it does from popular literature. French text.


France’s Third Republic misrepresented Beethoven when it turned him into a character whose values were foundational in the construction of the nation’s identity. This myth is found in a vast body of Beethovenian literature, which borrows from epic and hagiographic literature as much as it does from popular literature.

  • By (author) Marie Gaboriaud

La Troisieme Republique a mystifie Beethoven. Elle en a fait un personnage de fiction, et l'a integre au canon francais, en le dotant de toutes les valeurs morales et ideologiques qui fondent alors la construction de l'identite nationale. Ce mythe se deploie dans un vaste corpus, constitue de critique musicale, de biographies, de romans, de pieces de theatre, d'edition de vulgarisation et d'edition pedagogique, qui concourent a faire de Beethoven un personnage, voire un type romanesque. Il devient en effet un materiau litteraire qui va former une veritable litterature beethovenienne, ainsi qu'une poetique, marquees par les emprunts multiples a la litterature epique et hagiographique, mais aussi a la litterature populaire.
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