The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

Contents

• Introduction pleasure in history Nicholas Mathew and Benjamin Walton;
• Part I . The Age of Beethoven and Rossini?:
• 1. Dahlhaus's Beethoven-Rossini Stildualismus: lingering legacies of the text event dichotomy James Hepokoski;
• 2. Beethoven, Rossini - and others James Webster;
• 3. Heilige Trias, Stildualismus, Beethoven: the limits of nineteenth-century Germanic music historiography Gundula Kreuzer;
• 4. Rossini and Beethoven in the reception of Schubert Suzannah Clark;
• Part II . Senses of Place:
• 5. Two styles in 1830s London: 'the form and order of a perspicuous unity' Roger Parker;
• 6. Looking north: Carlo Soliva and the two styles south of the Alps Martin Deasy;
• 7. 'More German than Beethoven': Rossini's Zelmira and Italian style Benjamin Walton;
• 8. On being there in 1824 Nicholas Mathew;
• Part III . Rehearings:
• 9. Making overtures Scott Burnham;
• 10. Beethoven dances: Prometheus and his creatures in Vienna and Milan Mary Ann Smart;
• 11. Rossinian repetitions Emanuele Senici;
• Part IV . Crossing Musical Cultures:
• 12. Very much of this world: Beethoven, Rossini and the historiography of modernity Julian Johnson;
• 13. Schopenhauer and Rossinian universality: on the Italianate in Schopenhauer's metaphysics of music Yael Braunschweig;
• 14. Elements of disorder: appealing Beethoven vs Rossini John Deathridge;
• 15. Role reversal: Rossini and Beethoven in early biopics Richard Will.