The New Beethoven: Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation

Contents

• Preface - Jeremy Yudkin
• Introduction - Jeremy Yudkin
• PART ONE: A Creative Life
• Of Deserters and Orphans: Beethoven's Early Exposure to the Operas-comiques of Monsigny - Steven Moore Whiting
• "A really excellent and capable man": Beethoven and Johann Traeg - David Wyn Jones
• A Four-Leaf Clover: A Newly Discovered Cello, the Premiere of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven's Circle of Friends in Bonn, and a Corrected Edition of the Song Ruf vom Berge, WoO 147 - Michael Ladenburger
• "Where Thought Touches the Blood": Rhythmic Disturbance as Physical Realism in Beethoven's Creative Process - Bruce Adolphe
• The Sanctification of Beethoven in 1828 - Christopher Reynolds
• PART TWO: Prometheus/"Eroica"
• The Prometheus Theme and Beethoven's Shift from Avoidance to Embrace of Possibilities - Alan Gosman
• Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802: Deconstruction, Integration, and Creativity - William Kinderman
• 'Mit Verstarkung des Orchesters': The Orchestra Personnel at the First Public Performance of Beethoven's Eroica - Theodore Albrecht
• PART THREE: Masses
• "Aber lieber Beethoven, was haben Sie denn wieder da gemacht?": Observations on the Performing Parts for the Premiere of Beethoven's Mass in C, Op. 86? - Jeremiah McGrann
• Heart to Heart: Beethoven, Archduke Rudolph, and the Missa Solemnis - Mark Evan Bonds
• God and the Voice of Beethoven - Scott Burnham
• PART FOUR: Quartets
• 'So Here I Am, in the Middle Way': The Autograph of the "Harp" Quartet and the Expressive Domain of Beethoven's Second Maturity - M. Lucy Turner
• Meaningful Details: Expressive Markings in Beethoven Manuscripts, with a Focus on Opus 127 - Nicholas Kitchen
• The Autograph Score of the Slow Movement of Beethoven's Last Quartet, Op. 135 - Barry Cooper
• Early German-Language Reviews of Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Robin Wallace
• PART FIVE: Explorations
• Three Movements or Four? The Scherzo Movements in Beethoven's Early Sonatas - Erica Buurman
• Utopia and Dystopia Revisited: Contrasted Domains in Beethoven's Middle-Period F-Major and F-minor Works - Barbara Barry
• Schooling the Quintjager - David Levy
• Cue-Staff Annotations in Beethoven's Piano Works: Reflections and Examples from the Autograph of the Piano Sonata, Op. 101 - Federica Rovelli
• 'Another Little Buck out of Its Stable' - Richard Kramer
• Beethoven's Cavatina, Haydn's Seasons, and the Thickness of Inscription - Elaine Sisman