Beethoven

Contents

• Contents: Introduction. Part I History and Historiography: The biographical method, Carl Dahlhaus
• Beethoven's hero, Scott Burnham
• 'Late', last, and least: on being Beethoven's Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, K.M. Knittel
• Beethoven before 1800: the Mozart legacy, Lewis Lockwood
• Beethoven and the London pianoforte school, Alexander L. Ringer
• New roads to old ideas in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Warren Kirkendale. Part II Documents and Sketches: Beethoven's birth year, Maynard Solomon
• Das 'Heiligenstadter Testament' im Licht der Freimaurerei. Beethovens 'letzter Wille' als ein Beweis fur seine Zugehoerigkeit zur Logenbruderschaft?, Hans-Werner Kuthen
• New light on Beethoven's letter to an unknown woman, Maynard Solomon
• Conversations with Beethoven, Alan Tyson
• Beethoven's understanding of 'sonata form': the evidence of the sketchbooks, William Drabkin
• Beethoven's Sixth Symphony: sketches for the first movement, Philip Gossett
• Plans for the structure of the String Quartet in C Sharp Minor Op. 131, Robert Winter. Part III Analysis: Tovey's Beethoven, Joseph Kerman
• A case study for interpretation: the Third Movement of Op. 106 (Hammerklavier), Robert S. Hatten
• Form as the process of becoming: the Beethoven-Hegelian tradition and the 'Tempest' Sonata, Janet Schmalfeldt
• The significance of recapitulation in Beethoven's 'Waldstein' Sonata, Michael Spitzer
• Beethoven's experiments in composition: the late bagatelles, Edward T. Cone. Part IV Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Adorno's diagnosis of Beethoven's late style: early symptom of a fatal condition, Rose Rosengard Subotnik
• Beethoven and romantic irony, Rey M. Longyear
• Beethoven's 'Orpheus in Hades': the andante con moto of the Fourth Piano Concerto, Owen Jander
• Beethoven and masculinity, Sanna Pederson
• Resisting the Ninth, Richard Taruskin
• Beethoven's myth sympathy: Hollywood's re-construction, Holly Rogers. Name index.