Artistic Responses to Napoleon: Beethoven, Goya and Goethe
May 1-2, 2020!

Hope and Change could have been Napoleon’s election campaign themes, had he been required to submit his leadership to a vote. But reality set in quickly enough, as is revealed by artistic responses to Napoleonic times: Beethoven in music, Goya in art and Goethe in literature. Beethoven’s disillusionment is legendary, as is his music inspired by the Emperor. Goya’s politically incendiary depictions of war, considered the tortured psychological visions of an isolated recluse, revealed his struggle to deal with a chaotic and rapidly changing world. And Goethe’s literary waverings between admiration and horror, like Tolstoy’s, reveal the ambivalence of many writers and artists of the times.

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Marines’ Memorial Theatre, San Francisco
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