Table of Contents
Illustrations viii
Foreword Steven Isserlis ix
Preface xi
Personalia xv
1 From Bonn to Berlin 1
2 Music Fit for a King: The Sonata in F major Op. 5 No. 1 (1796) 20
Interlude: Beethoven's Cellos 42
3 Tragic/Comic Masks: The Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 (1796) 51
Interlude: Beethoven's Pianos 67
4 Themes and Variations 76
Interlude: The Triple Concerto as Outlier 94
5 Friendship, War, Tears, and Grief: The Sonata in A major Op. 69 (1808) 100
6 Freedom and Control: The Sonata in C major Op. 102 No. 1 (1815) 125
7 'Most Remarkable and Strange': The Sonata in D major Op. 102 No. 2 (1815) 146
Interlude: Arranged Sonatas 170
8 Opus Posthumum 175
Appendix 1 Primary Sources of Beethoven's Music for Cello and Piano 193
Appendix 2 Reviews of Beethoven's Cello Music by His Contemporaries 197
Notes 203
Bibliography 228
Index of Works by Beethoven 239
General Index 244