Chapter VI: Beethoven 157

Beethoven Contrasted with the old Composers of the Empire,
p. 159. Cosmopolitan Life of the Pianist, p. 161. Viennese
Pianists, p. 160. Public Contests of Pianists, p. 161.
Dussek, p. 164. The Sonata of the Time, p. 165. Beethoven’s
Nature, p. 167. Music as a _Speech_, 167. The “Development”
of Motives, p. 171. Rise of the Tragic Sonata, p. 172.
The Sportive Beethoven, p. 173. His Forms, p. 175. His
Archaism, p. 177. His tendency to the “Galant” style, p.
179. His Last Works, p. 181.