The Beethoven Violin Sonatas : History, Criticism, Performance

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(4) 1. Beethoven's Opus 12 Violin Sonatas: On the Path to His Personal Style Sieghard Brandenburg 5(19) 2. "On the Beautiful in Music": Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata for Violin and Piano, Opus 24 Lewis Lockwood 24(23) 3. "Sonate, que me veux-tu?": Opus 30, Opus 31, and the Anxieties of Genre Richard Kramer 47(14) 4. Beethoven's Opus 47: Balance and Virtuosity Suhnne Ahn 61(22) 5. The Introduction to Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata: A Historical Perspective William Drabkin 83(27) 6. The Violin Sonata in G Major, Opus 96: Pastoral, Rhetoric, Structure Maynard Solomon 110(19) 7. As If Stroked with a Bow: Beethoven's Keyboard Legato and the Sonatas for Violin and Piano Mark Kroll 129(22) Bibliography 151(8) Contributors 159(2) Index 161