The Cambridge Companion to The Eroica Symphony

Contents

• Introduction Nancy November;
• Part I . Context and Genesis:
• 1. Beethoven and heroism in the age of revolutions Scott Burnham;
• 2. Beethoven's 'watershed'? Eroica's contexts and periodization Mark Ferraguto;
• 3. The symphony in Vienna and abroad around 1800 Erica Burrman;
• 4. Genesis and publication of the Eroica Federica Rovelli;
• Part II . Analytical Approaches:
• 5. Twentieth-century analytical approaches to the first movement William Drabkin;
• 6. Beethoven in the garden: the hero who practices resignation; or, the Eroica as 'late' work Vasili Byros;
• 7. Registering the Eroica Nicholas Marston;
• 8. After invention: traces and materials in the Eroica finale Elaine Sisman;
• Part III . Reception:
• 9. Who is the hero? The early reception of the Eroica Beate Angelika Kraus;
• 10. The Eroica in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Leon Botstein;
• 11. Performing, arranging and rearranging the Eroica: then and now Nancy November;
• 12. The Eroica endures: Beethoven's Third Symphony in the twenty-first century Melanie Lowe.