The Search for Meaning in Beethoven: Popularity, Intimacy, and Politics in Historical Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. PART I HEROIC BEETHOVEN
5. In the Time(s) of the "Eroica" 1
6. Beethoven, Florestan, and the Varieties of Heroism 27
7. PART II LATE BEETHOVEN
8. Memory and Invention at the Threshold of Beethoven's Late Style 51
9. Voices and Their Rhythms in the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 109: Some Thoughts on the Performance and Analysis of a Late-Style Work 88
10. Voicing Beethoven's Distant Beloved 124
11. PART III BEETHOVEN IN THE WORKSHOP
12. Keyboard Instruments of the Young Beethoven 151
13. Contrast and Continuity in Beethoven's Creative Process 193
14. PART IV BEETHOVEN IN THE WORLD
15. Performances of Grief: Vienna's Response to the Death of Beethoven 227
16. The Visual Beethoven: Whence, Why, and Whither the Scowl? 287
17. Beethoven and Masculinity 313
18. The Search for Meaning in Beethoven: Popularity, Intimacy, and Politics in Historical Perspective 332
19. Index 367
20. Notes on the Contributors 381