Beethoven-Geflechte. A Beethoven Tapestry.:  Networks and Cultures of Memory, ed. Birgit Lodes und Melanie Unseld. Veröffentlichungen zur Musikforschung 30 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024), 518 pp. ISBN 978-3-7001-9186-5 (printed edition), ISBN 978-3-7001-9187-2 (e-book)

Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

doi:10.71045/musau.2025.1.27

Beethoven-Geflechte. A Beethoven Tapestry.

Networks and Cultures of Memory, ed. Birgit Lodes und Melanie Unseld. Veröffentlichungen zur Musikforschung 30 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024), 518 pp. ISBN 978-3-7001-9186-5 (printed edition), ISBN 978-3-7001-9187-2 (e-book)

Authors

Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4438-7158

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71045/musau.2025.1.27

Abstract

This book is based on contributions to an interdisciplinary conference held during the Beethoven anniversary year of 2020. Echoing the idea of a "web" in its title, the review traces the connections between the individual chapters, which span several thematic sections. With its focus on aristocratic figures such as Prince Lichnowsky, as well as the salons and dances of the nobility, the book reinforces the image of Beethoven as a composer rooted in the ancien régime. Only a few chapters address his role in the social transformations that followed the Congress of Vienna.