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Beethoven’s battle piece Wellington’s Victory, op. 91 is almost universally acknowledged as a lapse in, as Lockwood puts it,
Beethoven’s “normal standards of selfcriticism”
(p. 339).
Can you cite a parallel example of a wellrespected
artist (not necessarily a composer) who similarly suspended his or her
characteristically high standards to produce a work of patriotic fervor that later proved an artistic embarrassment? (In your
response, be sure to cite the opinions of established critics … i.e., you can’t unilaterally declare the work an artistic failure
