1. From the chapel to the theatre to the Akademiensaal: Beethoven's musical apprenticeship at the Bonn Electoral Court, 1784¿1792 John Wilson; 2. Gracious Beethoven? W. Dean Sutcliffe; 3. Beethoven's unfinished symphonies Barry Cooper; 4. Beethoven as sentimentalist Michael Spitzer; 5. Beethoven's nature: idealism and sovereignty from an ecological perspective Keith Chapin; 6. (Cross-) gendering the German voice Katherine Hambridge; 7. Beethoven and tonal prototypes: an inherited and developing relationship Giorgio Sanguinetti; 8. Shared identities and thwarted narratives: Beethoven and the Austrian Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1817¿1824 David Wyn Jones; 9. Composing with a dictionary: sounding the word in Beethoven's Missa solemnis Birgit Lodes; 10. Deafly performing Beethoven's last three piano sonatas Tom Beghin; Index of Beethoven's works; General index.