Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION xiii
5. A NOTE TO THE READER xx
6. BEETHOVEN HERO
7. CHAPTER ONE Beethoven's Hero 1
8. CHAPTER TWO Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style 29
9. CHAPTER THREE Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists 66
10. CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self 112
11. CHAPTER FIVE Beethoven Hero 147
12. NOTES 169
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 195
14. INDEX 203