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Journal 20: 3- 46. • Morris, Edmund. Beethoven: The Universal Composer. New York: Atlas Books / HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-075p7Aa. • Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. Expanded ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. ISBN -393: Q4Dag4 (hc); ISBN o-a93-31712-9 (pb). • Sachs

ed that the usual rules of court etiquette did not apply to Beethoven .E9°1 Beethoven was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment. In 1804, when Napoleon's imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title page of his Third Symphony and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently th

were named. EFTA00536845 In the Autumn of 18°8, after having been rejected for a position at the royal theatre, Beethoven received an offer from Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte, then king of Westphalia, for a well-paid position as Kapellmeister at the court in Cassel. To persuade him to stay in Vi

the deeper chord changes of history has, always, been the decisive mark of leadership and success in revolutionary periods. Consider, for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbut

decisive mark of leadership and success in revolutionary periods. Consider, for instance, Charles, the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel who faced down Napoleon on the fields of Jena in what is now central Germany in October 1806. Brusnwick-Wolfenbuttel was then 71 years old. He was considered one of the most

rs to one. His men were masters of the subtle techniques of Frederick the Great, tactics that had delivered victory in far more perilous moments. But Napoleon, less than half the Duke’s age at 37, stared across the same undulating land, the same poised armies and saw in the landscape something completely 4

inds, handing new arguments to the slaveholders. Charles Darwin doesn't agree with the way his theories of

st power in the countryside still held by local Javanese rulers. After Holland was conquered by the French republic then empire (and ruled by one of Napoleon's brothers), distant Java was taken over and turned upside down by a Franco-Dutch revolutionary regime (1808-1811). Then a dictatorial British occup

ons. What do they augur? The political scientists Charles S. Gochman and Zeev Maoz once made a survey of hi

ciples of power in a connected age. “Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick,” Napoleon wrote once. “Make them your models. This is the 147 | was thinking: Dan Geer, “Cybersecurity as Realpolitik”, speech delivered at BlackHat, August 6