After Beethoven

The Imperative of Originality in the Symphony

Mark Evan Bonds

    Introduction

    1. The Voice of Tradition and the Voice from Within
    The Crisis of the Symphony after Beethoven

    2. Sinfonia anti-eroica
    Berlioz's Harold en Italic

    3. The Flight of Icarus
    Mendelssohn's Lobgesang

    4. Going to Extremes
    Schumann's Fourth Symphony

    5. The Ideology of Genre
    Brahm's First Symphony

    6. Ambivalent Elysium
    Mahier's Fourth Symphony

    Selected Bibliography

    Index

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Mark Evan Bonds is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina.