Preface and Acknowledgments. List of Plates. List of music Examples and Figures. Overture. 1. The Bonn Years. 2. The Path to Mastery, 1792-1798. 3. Crises and Creativity, 1799-1802. 4. The Heroic Style I, 1803-1806. 5. The Heroic Style II, 1806-1809. 6. Consolidation, 1810-1812. 7. The Congress of Vienna Period, 1813-1815. 8. The Hammerklavier Sonata, 1816-1818. 9. Struggle, 1819-1822. 10. Triumph, 1822-1824. 11. The `Galitzin' Quartets, 1824-1825. 12. The Last Phase, 1826-1827. Selected Bibliography. Bibliography of Works Cited. Index of Beethoven's Compositions. General Index |