Beethoven and the voice of God
By: Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher: Travis & Emery
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781904331896; 9781904331902
Subjects: Sonatas (Piano); History and criticism; Music; Religious aspects; Sonates (Piano); Histoire et critique; Musique; Aspect religieux; Missa solemnis (Beethoven, Ludwig van); Sonatas (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
Notes: Originally published: Faber and Faber, 1983.

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