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Index
Title page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Part I · A professional portrait
1 Some thoughts on biography and a chronology of Beethoven’s life and music Glenn Stanley
2 Beethoven at work: musical activist and thinker Glenn Stanley
3 The compositional act: sketches and autographs Barry Cooper
Part II · Style and structure
4 “The spirit of Mozart from Haydn’s hands”: Beethoven’s musical inheritance Elaine Sisman
5 Phrase,period,theme Roger Kamien
6 “The sense of an ending”: goal-directedness in Beethoven’s music Nicholas Marston
Part III · Genres
7 The piano music: concertos, sonatas, variations, small forms William Kinderman
8 Beethoven’s chamber music with piano: seeking unity in mixed sonorities Mark Kaplan
9 Manner, tone, and tendency in Beethoven’s chamber music for strings John Daverio
10 Sound and structure in Beethoven’s orchestral music Leon Botstein
11 Beethoven’s songs and vocal style Amanda Glauert
12 Beethoven’s essay in opera: historical, text-critical,and interpretative issues in Fidelio Michael C.Tusa
13 Probing the sacred genres: Beethoven’s religious songs, oratorio,and masses Birgit Lodes
Part IV · Reception
14 “With a Beethoven-like sublimity”: Beethoven in the works of other composers Margaret Notley
15 Beethoven’s music in performance: historical perspectives Alain Frogley
16 The four ages of Beethoven: critical reception and the canonic composer Scott Burnham
17 Beethoven at large: reception in literature, the arts, philosophy,and politics David B.Dennis
Notes
Selected further reading
General index
Index of Beethoven’s compositions and sketches
Illustrations
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