Manchester Beethoven Studies

Barry Cooper is Professor of Music at the University of ManchesterMatthew Pilcher is Lecturer in Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

• Introduction – Barry Cooper and Matthew Pilcher 1 Beethoven’s indebtedness to his teacher Christian Gottlob Neefe: a comparison of their Variations on Themes byCarl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Kris Worsley 2 Beethoven’s Erste Liebe, Himmelslust, WoO 92: sources, languages, text-setting – Matthew Pilcher3 Situating Beethoven’s chamber music with wind: genre, topic and transcription – Martin Harlow4 Beethoven’s variation sets and the role of the slow variation – Artur Pereira5 A hermeneutic approach to word cues in the score of Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 in G major for pianoforte and orchestra, Op. 58 – Sara Eckerson 6 Born under a gloomy star: new perspectives on Beethoven’s String Quintet Op. 104 – Jos van der Zanden7 Transcending slowness in Beethoven’s late style – Marten Noorduin 8 Beethoven’s faith and beliefs in the context of his age: some unexplored avenues and reassessments, with special reference to Sailer – Susan Cooper 9 Beethoven’s view of Scotland – Barry Cooper 10 Charles Hallé: a Beethoven champion in Manchester – Siân Derry Index

'The index provides the unifying glue and a belvedere from which to reach into the entrails of this very diverse assemblage of Beethoven scholarship that rotates like satellites around the central reference point that is Manchester.'Rob Barnett, Music Web International