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Beethoven Sought to Create the Sound of Progress

Beethoven Sought to Create the Sound of Progress
A statue of Ludwig van Beethoven stands outside the opera house in Hannover, Germany, on Aug. 31, 2009. Joerg Sarbach/AP Photo
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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To understand any of the music of the past 500 years, it helps to understand the history. It’s true with popular music, of course. Souza marches go with the Spanish-American War and World War I. The advent of dance music of the 1920s and 1930s was the soundtrack to the Prohibition Era. The rock and roll of the 1950s and 1960s was breaking free from the constraints of postwar planning.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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