The invention of Beethoven and Rossini : historiography, analysis, criticism

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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.