INDEX
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Allegro con Brio of the 1st Symphony, 29
Adagio of 4th Symphony, 56
Andante of 5th Symphony, 66
Allegro of 5th Symphony, 69
Allegro of 5th Symphony depicts a Conflict, 70
Allegretto of 7th Symphony, 92
Allegretto Scherzando of 8th Symphony, 97
Beethoven suggestive of Dante and Milton, 15
Beethoven rivals Æschylus and Shakespeare, 60
Beethoven compared with Napoleon, 16
Beethoven distinguished by his great power, 28
Beethoven admired Handel, 28
Beethoven, his modulations peculiar to himself, 29
Beethoven a prophet, 37
Beethoven, his combined power and sweetness, 41
Beethoven compared with Shakespeare, 52
Beethoven not to be conquered by fate, 63
Beethoven, his music not to be explained, 69
Beethoven, his profound simplicity in the Pastoral Symphony, 79
Beethoven another Columbus, 90
Beethoven a Theist, 110
Beethoven, his individuality, 111
Beethoven, his religious creed, 112
Beethoven, his library, 113
Beethoven, his music pregnant with ideas, 114
Carlyle, 27
Chords without thirds, 30
Choral Symphony, 98
Choral Symphony was an experiment, 99
Choral Symphony, errors of judgment in, 104
Choral Symphony, execution not equal to the design, 107
Eroica, analysed, 40
Elterlein's summary of the Pastoral Symphony, 84
Eighth Symphony, 96
First Symphony, 16
Funeral March of Eroica Symphony, 46
Funeral March not written in honour of Napoleon, 48
Fourth Symphony, 51
Fifth Symphony, 59
Fifth Symphony another Eroica, 60
Fifth Symphony paints Beethoven's life, 62
Finale of Fifth Symphony, 72
Goethe and Wilhelm Meister, 45
Haydn, 4
Haydn, Elterlein's opinion upon, 7
Handel studied by Beethoven, 71
Heller, Stephen, 21
Inspiration defined, 27
Larghetto of 2nd Symphony 32
Larghetto " " shows influence of Haydn and Mozart, 33
Larghetto " " not so great as the preceding movement, 36
Mozart, 8
Mozart compared with Shakespeare, 10
Mendelssohn compared with Beethoven, 31
Mozart compared with Beethoven, 68
Michael Angelo the analogue of Beethoven, 102
Molto Vivace of 9th Symphony, 102
Napoleon, 24
Ninth Symphony, 98
Ode to Joy, 103
Pastoral Symphony, 76
Pastoral Symphony written near Vienna, 76
Pastoral Symphony feeling rather than painting, 81
Symphony and Sonata compared, 17
Symphony, power of the, 59
Second Symphony, 23
Schumann, greatest symphonist after Beethoven, 43
Scherzo of Eroica Symphony, 49
Sixth Symphony, 76
Scherzo of Pastoral Symphony, 83
Seventh Symphony, 86
Seventh Symphony, scherzo and finale of, 93
Schiller's Ode to Joy, 103
Spohr's judgment on the Choral Symphony, 106
Summing up, 108
Third Symphony, 37
Third Symphony, a prophecy of the 19th century, 38
Vivace of Seventh Symphony, 88
War, potent in art, 27
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