Background
Esteban Buch was born on July 30, 1963, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Esteban Buch, educator, historian, musicologist, author.
Esteban Buch, educator, historian, musicologist, author.
Esteban Buch (third to the left), educator, historian, musicologist, author.
Esteban Buch, educator, historian, musicologist, author.
Esteban Buch (right), educator, historian, musicologist, author.
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Esteban Buch earned a Doctor of Philosophy in languages from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
(In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symp...)
In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Esteban Buch traces such complex and contradictory uses - and abuses - of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premiere in 1824.
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2003
(Finding Democracy in Music is the first study to offer a ...)
Finding Democracy in Music is the first study to offer a wide-ranging investigation of ways in which democracy may thus be found in music. A guiding theme of the volume is that this takes place in a plurality of ways, depending upon the perspective taken to music’s manifold relationships, and the idea of democracy being entertained.
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2020
educator historian musicologist author
Esteban Buch was born on July 30, 1963, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Esteban Buch earned a Doctor of Philosophy in languages from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France.
Esteban Buch is a professor of music history at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France. He is a specialist in the relationships between music and politics. Beethoven's classic Ninth Symphony is the focal point of Esteban Buch's look at the musical and political impact composers have had throughout history.
While Buch addresses subjects such as the United Kingdom's "Rule Britannia" and "God Save the King," Joseph Haydn's "Austrian Hymn," and "La Marseillaise," most of the attention falls in line with the title of Buch's book. La neuvième de Beethoven: une histoire politique, translated by Richard Miller from French to English as Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History. Near the beginning of the book, Buch discusses the trend of national anthems in late eighteenth-century music. Compositions such as "God Save the Queen" were meant to evoke patriotic feelings.
Buch views Beethoven as part of this tradition when he wrote "The Glorious Movement" for the 1814 Congress of Vienna to celebrate European power. "The Glorious Movement" was one of the models for the Ninth Symphony ten years later. Buch argues that the performance of the Ninth has resonated within great public events in part because of its historical and generic association with these musiques d'Elat made for the ritual celebration of the prevailing social power. Regarded as one of the most stirring classical pieces ever composed, written as Beethoven battled total deafness, the Ninth Symphony has been widely identified by the epic final movement popularized by and based upon Friedrich Schiller's poem, "Ode to Joy." Buch demonstrates how the Ninth Symphony took on political interpretations in Europe almost immediately after its first performance in the early 1820s. Even up to the European Union s adoption of "Ode to Joy" as its anthem in 1972, Beethoven's immensely popular symphony repeatedly has taken on a political tone. Buch notes that unlike works by Richard Wagner, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony overcame its attachment to Nazi Germany before, during, and after World War II. Adolf Hitler, it is pointed out, got a lump in his throat during the opening fanfare and had the symphony played at his birthdays. In both celebratory and perverse ways, the symphony has entertained millions in differing ways. In the book, Buch examines how Beethoven's Ninth Symphony developed into an iconic artwork.
(In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symp...)
2003(Finding Democracy in Music is the first study to offer a ...)
2020