CONTENTS

PART I       First Things

                     1 Language and the Beginnings of Creation

PART II     Emanuel Bach and the Allure of the Irrational

                     2 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the Aesthetics of Patricide

                     3 The Ends of Veränderung

                     4 Late Works

                     5 Probestück

                     6 Diderot’s Paradoxe and C. P. E. Bach’s Empfindungen

PART III    Between Enlightenment and Romance

                     7 Haydn’s Chaos and Herder’s Logos

                     8 Beethoven and the Romance of Creation

PART IV    Beethoven: Confronting the Past

                     9 Cadenza Contra Text: Mozart in Beethoven’s Hands

                   10 Opus 90: In Search of Emanuel Bach

                   11 Adagio espressivo: Opus 109 as Radical Dialectic

                   12 Lisch aus, mein Licht: Song, Fugue, and the Symptoms of a Late Style

PART V     Fragments

                   13 Toward an Epistemology of Fragment

                   14 Reliquie

PART VI    Death Masks

                   15 Walter Benjamin and the Apprehending of Beauty

                   List of Works Cited

                   Index