Beethoven Iraq During a Brief Term Paper

This is what connects Americans with Iraqis more fundamentally -- a common humanity, not abstract desires to change the government.

Discussion 2: Beethoven

This passage prompts the question -- why do we tend to classify Beethoven as a Romantic artist and David as Neoclassical? After all, both artists combined Romantic and Neoclassical elements in their composition. Perhaps the answer is that when we listen to a composition by Beethoven, we feel as listeners that we have gained a sense of who Beethoven was like as a man, the emotions that moved him as a human being.David, in contrast, although he had clear political views that shifted and evolved over the course of the French Revolution to the rule of Napoleon is not an emotional presence in his paintings. David's paintings seem to be historical, almost photographic depictions of 'real life' or imagined real life in the classical past like the "Oath of the Horatii." His paintings seem to be about other people, like Napoleon or Marat, not about himself, unlike Beethoven's works, where Beethoven's emotions seem to bubble beneath the….....