Cambridge Companions to Music - Series page

pp ii-vi

The Cambridge Companion to the Eroica Symphony - Title page

pp vii-vii

Copyright page

pp viii-viii

Contents

pp ix-x

Illustrations

pp xi-xi

Musical Examples

pp xii-xiii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiv-xvi

Eroica Chronology, 1770–2020

pp xvii-xxi

Acknowledgements

pp xxii-xxii

Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Context and Genesis

pp 5-78

1 - Beethoven and Heroism in the Age of Revolutions

pp 7-23

2 - Beethoven’s ‘Watershed’? Eroica’s Contexts and Periodisation

pp 24-42

3 - The Symphony in Vienna and Abroad around 1800

pp 43-60

4 - Genesis and Publication of the Eroica

pp 61-78

Part II - Analytical Approaches

pp 79-180

5 - Twentieth-Century Analytical Approaches to the First Movement

pp 81-104

6 - The Hero Who Practices Resignation: Beethoven’s Eroica as ‘Late’ Work

pp 105-138

7 - Registering the Eroica

pp 139-156

8 - After Invention: Traces and Materials in the Eroica Finale

pp 157-180

Part III - Reception

pp 181-255

9 - Who is the Hero? The Early Reception of the Eroica

pp 183-197

10 - The Eroica in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pp 198-220

11 - Performing, Arranging and Rearranging the Eroica: Then and Now

pp 221-238

12 - The Eroica Endures: Beethoven’s Third Symphony in the Twenty-First Century

pp 239-255

Further Reading

pp 256-263

General Index

pp 264-270