Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: A Sea Change 1. The End of a Beginning: The "Diabelli" Variations 2. Beyond Classicism 3. Some Romantic Images 4. Pastoral, Rhetoric, Structure: The Violin Sonata in G, Op. 96 5. Reason and Imagination: The Aesthetic Dimension 6. The Seventh Symphony and the Rhythms of Antiquity 7. The Masonic Thread 8. The Masonic Imagination 9. The Shape of a Journey: The "Diabelli" Variations 10. Intimations of the Sacred 11. The Sense of an Ending: The Ninth Symphony 12. The Healing Power of Music Abbreviations Notes Index

About the Author

Maynard Solomon is on the Graduate Faculty at the Juilliard School. He is author of Mozart: A Life (1995), Beethoven Essays (1988), and Beethoven (1977, second edition 1998).

Reviews

"A new view of Beethoven's artistic development that will be much discussed."--"New York Review of Books