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Table of Contents
Prelude. Beethoven, God and enlightenment
Young Prometheus
Comedy and catastrophe
Maelstrom and cornucopia
The hidden song. Eros, Dionysus and romanticism
The tyger and the forge
Scapegoat and fool
The water and the fire
The strong thief: a study of the Missa Solemnis. Kyrie: the invisible church
Gloria: the joyous wrath of God
Credo: Christ-Osiris and the hanged man
Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei: Persephone restored; 'a prayer for inner and outer peace'
Postlude. A world in a grain of sand
A joy as it flies
Coda
Appendix A: A note on Beethoven's piano
Appendix B: Man and God in Fidelio.
Edition Notes
Originally published: Faber and Faber, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448) and index.
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