Beethoven's Ninth

Introduction: The States of Joy
Part I. The Birth of Modern Political Music
1. God Save the King and the Handel Cult
2. La Marseillaise and the "Supreme Being"
3. The Ode to Joy and the Emperor's Anthem
4. Beethoven and the Concert of Europe
5. The Ninth Symphony
Part II. Political Reception of the Ode to Joy
6. The Romantic Cult
7. The 1845 Ceremony at Bonn
8. The Ninth in the Era of Nationalist Movements
9. The 1927 Centenary
10. Beethoven as führer
11. From Year Zero to the European Anthem
12. From Apartheid's Anthem to the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall
Conclusion: Criticism and the Future of a Dream
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index