• Unusual references to Beethoven • Interdisciplinary exploration • Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth

Cover Title Imprint Foreword Ay?e Erkmen: esile rüf Beethoven Moves Jan and Aleida Assmann: A Conversation about Beethoven Framed around Ten Questions Magdalena Grausam: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57, ‘Appassionata’ Birgit Lodes: Messiah with Spider and Sword: Stories about Beethoven’s Childhood Ernst Schwitters: Ur Sonata Performed by Kurt Schwitters [Series I] Susana Zapke: Beethoven: A Prophetic Hero of Music and his Devotees Ulf Aminde: Life is not a Musical Request Show Vea Kaiser: Loss of the Senses Auguste Rodin: L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sketches for String Quartets (in F major, E minor and C major), op. 59, autograph Beat Wyss: From Wunderkind to Marketing Pioneer Dick Higgins: Symphony No. 76 in Memorian Henry Cowell: Allegro / Funeral March / Triumphal Jig Robert Rauschenberg: Automobile Tire Print Clemens Gadenstätter: Iconosonic Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven: Sketches for String Quartets (in F major, E minor and C major), op. 59, autograph Marcello Mercado: Bestiary of the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera Hiroshi Nait?: Architectural Intention Cymatics Research: 12 Piano Notes (C1) ????: ????????? Satoko Kawano: The Tempest 2019 Paula Noll: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, op. 31, no. 1 NASA: Voyager 1, Voyager Golden Record NASA: Voyager 1, Pale Blue Dot Katie Paterson: Earth-Moon-Earth Julia Ronge: The ‘Waldstein’ Sonata Jorinde VoigT: Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata 1, 14, 17, 21 Edmund de Waal: Late Dorit Margreiter: Experimental Noise Vija Celmins: Desert Werner Busch: Beethoven and Goya: Two Rank Outsiders Francisco de Goya: Los Caprichos Ear trumpet: owned by Ludwig van Beethoven Christine Sun Kim: The Sound of … Isha Bøhling: Silence Barbara Zeman: The Maid L.S. Lowry: The Grey Sea Jürgen Müller: The Power of Music: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Ludwig van Beethoven Alfred Eisenstaedt: The Room in Which Beethoven Was Born Ronja Sperneder: Overture to Egmont, op. 84 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sketches for Six Bagatelles for Piano, op. 126, nos. 1–3, autograph Manfred Trojahn: Manuscript Pages for the Piece Ein Brief, Based on the Text of the Same Name by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Manfred Trojahn: Concept Page Showing an Excerpt from the Work Ein Brief by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (above) as well as some Lines from Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament (below) Idris Khan: Struggling to Hear.... After Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas Norio Suda: Beethoven: Fate Emma Francis: Bruiser / Crack / Lost Thomas Macho: A Secular Messiah: Beethoven as an Icon of the Cult of Genius Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55, ‘Eroica’, manuscript score Jean-Michel Basquiat: Eroica II / Eroica I / Eroica Sheila Melvin And Jindong Cai: Beethoven: China’s Sage of Music Yanming Zhou: ?Music Without Titles? Ludwig van Beethoven: Sketches for the Choral Finale of Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125, 4th mvt, autograph Olafur Eliasson: Colour Experiment no. 58 Joseph Mallord William Turner: Fire at the Grand Storehouse of the Tower of London Olafur Eliasson: Colour Experiment no. 61 Joseph Mallord William Turner: Skies Sketchbook Joseph Mallord William Turner: Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook Larissa Kirillina: Russia through Beethoven’s Eyes Alfred Stieglitz: Songs of the Sky in Five Pictures Aleida Assmann: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter James A.M. Whistler: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket Olga Flor: Death Mask Cy Twombly: Untitled I (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Caspar David Friedrich: Seashore with Fisherman Cy Twombly: Untitled II (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Caspar David Friedrich: Billowing Clouds Cy Twombly: Untitled III (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Caspar David Friedrich: Rocky Landscape in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains Cy Twombly: Untitled IV (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Caspar David Friedrich: Seashore in the Fog Cy Twombly: Untitled V (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Caspar David Friedrich: Moon above the Riesengebirge Cy Twombly: Untitled VI (Green Paintings) [A Painting in Six Parts] Philipp Hauss: Without Words Magdalena Grausam: Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21 Akira Kasai: Oh Beethoven! Renata Felinto: Danço na terra em que piso (I Dance at the Ground on Which I Step) Joseph Beuys: Dancer Auguste Rodin: Study of a Cambodian Dancer?s Hand Christopher Rothko: Beethoven and Stillness Objects in the exhibition Image credits/Image essays Image credits/Comparative images Lenders Authors Acknowledgements