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Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
List of contents
Introduction: pleasure in history Nicholas Mathew and Benjamin Walton; Part I. The Age of Beethoven and Rossini?: 1. Dahlhaus's Beethoven-Rossini Stildualismus: lingering legacies of the text event dichotomy James Hepokoski; 2. Beethoven, Rossini - and others James Webster; 3. Heilige Trias, Stildualismus, Beethoven: the limits of nineteenth-century Germanic music historiography Gundula Kreuzer; 4. Rossini and Beethoven in the reception of Schubert Suzannah Clark; Part II. Senses of Place: 5. Two styles in 1830s London: 'the form and order of a perspicuous unity' Roger Parker; 6. Looking north: Carlo Soliva and the two styles south of the Alps Martin Deasy; 7. 'More German than Beethoven': Rossini's Zelmira and Italian style Benjamin Walton; 8. On being there in 1824 Nicholas Mathew; Part III. Rehearings: 9. Making overtures Scott Burnham; 10. Beethoven dances: Prometheus and his creatures in Vienna and Milan Mary Ann Smart; 11. Rossinian repetitions Emanuele Senici; Part IV. Crossing Musical Cultures: 12. Very much of this world: Beethoven, Rossini and the historiography of modernity Julian Johnson; 13. Schopenhauer and Rossinian universality: on the Italianate in Schopenhauer's metaphysics of music Yael Braunschweig; 14. Elements of disorder: appealing Beethoven vs Rossini John Deathridge; 15. Role reversal: Rossini and Beethoven in early biopics Richard Will.
