In the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, Beethoven played what role in 1824 and how was that tied to the ...?

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The New York Times (Anthony Tommasini): “… as Harvey Sachs writes in his insightful new book, ‘The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824,’ Beethoven’s last symphony has been ‘used as a battle flag by liberals and conservatives, by democrats and autocrats, by Nazis, Communists and anarchists.’ Yet, as Mr. Sachs makes clear here, Beethoven’s Ninth, whatever ideas and ideals we charge or clutter it with, is also an ingenious composition by a towering master in his transcendent late period, a path-breaking work that defined its cultural era. Mr. Sachs, a historian and critic who is the author of valuable biographies of Toscanini and Rubinstein, convincingly relates the symphony to contemporaneous works by champions of Romanticism in other fields, including Byron, Pushkin, Delacroix, Stendhal and Heine… Mr. Sachs astutely points out that this piece proclaiming all men brothers, an unabashed call for freedom, appeared in the middle of a decade characterized by dynastic repression and ultraconservative nationalism… As someone who describes music in nontechnical terms for a living, I admire Mr. Sachs’s perceptive, often vivid account… [Beethoven’s] pieces were not expressions of his life; they were his life, Mr. Sachs argues. Reading this book, you feel for the composer, trying to bond with others through an astonishing symphony.”