Nicholas Mathew is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at his local comprehensive school in Norwich, England, and went on to study music at Oriel College, Oxford and piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After earning his doctorate from Cornell University, New York, where he also studied period pianos with Malcolm Bilson, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is editor, with W. Dean Sutcliffe, of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music and has published on matters relating to Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, music aesthetics and musical performance in, among others, Musical Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, Current Musicology and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He is a contributor to the volume Engaging Haydn (edited by Richard Will and Mary Hunter, 2012).

'In this meticulously researched volume, the author offers many intriguing points.' CHOICE

• Introduction: political collaborations; 1. Music between myth and history; 2. Beethoven's moments; 3. The sounds of power and the power of sound; 4. The inner public; 5. After the war; Appendix: eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical sources consulted.

Nicholas Mathew is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at his local comprehensive school in Norwich, England, and went on to study music at Oriel College, Oxford and piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After earning his doctorate from Cornell University, New York, where he also studied period pianos with Malcolm Bilson, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is editor, with W. Dean Sutcliffe, of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music and has published on matters relating to Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, music aesthetics and musical performance in, among others, Musical Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, Current Musicology and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He is a contributor to the volume Engaging Haydn (edited by Richard Will and Mary Hunter, 2012).

'In this meticulously researched volume, the author offers many intriguing points.' CHOICE

• Introduction: political collaborations; 1. Music between myth and history; 2. Beethoven's moments; 3. The sounds of power and the power of sound; 4. The inner public; 5. After the war; Appendix: eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical sources consulted.

Nicholas Mathew is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at his local comprehensive school in Norwich, England, and went on to study music at Oriel College, Oxford and piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After earning his doctorate from Cornell University, New York, where he also studied period pianos with Malcolm Bilson, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He is editor, with W. Dean Sutcliffe, of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music and has published on matters relating to Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, music aesthetics and musical performance in, among others, Musical Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Music, Nineteenth-Century Music, Current Musicology and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. He is a contributor to the volume Engaging Haydn (edited by Richard Will and Mary Hunter, 2012).

'In this meticulously researched volume, the author offers many intriguing points.' CHOICE

• Introduction: political collaborations; 1. Music between myth and history; 2. Beethoven's moments; 3. The sounds of power and the power of sound; 4. The inner public; 5. After the war; Appendix: eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical sources consulted.