4 Locating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Musical Examples viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Defining Chamber Music in the Early Nineteenth Century 6
8. 2 Celebrating Haydn, Cultivating Opera 23
9. 3 Selling String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna 60
10. 4 Locating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna 91
11. 5 Early Nineteenth-Century Performance and Criticism 121
12. 6 Sociability, Showmanship, and Study: ‘Quartet Friends’ 147
13. 7 The String Quartet and the Listener 176
14. 8 Schubert’s Song, Beethoven’s Theatricality 198
15. Epilogue: Constructing ‘Viennese Chamber Music’ 222
16. Bibliography 233
17. Index 245