Not so much a year of exciting performances of sonatas, string quartets and symphonies, it has been the year of cancel Beethoven. The pandemic has cancelled concerts of Beethoven’s music but that hasn’t stopped attempts by academic theorists and podcasters to bring him down a notch or two. This year was meant to be one of celebration for Beethoven, who was baptised (his exact date of birth is unknown) in Bonn on December 17, 1770. Deborah Cheetham in the article has it absolutely right: we can encourage previously marginalised composers without rejecting the greats.Īfter pulling down statues and banishing fantasy authors, cancel culture has caught up with classical music and is making a bogeyman of Beethoven, the world’s most popular composer. We've seen this material before, but it's quite a good summary.
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