Beethoven's cello: five revolutionary sonatas and their world

1 From Bonn to Berlin

2 Music fit for a king: the sonata in F major Op. 5 No. 1 (1796)

Interlude: Beethoven's cellos

3 Tragic/comic masks: the sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 (1796)

Interlude: Beethoven's pianos

4 Themes and variations

Interlude: The Triple concerto as outlier

5 Friendship, war, tears, and grief: the sonata in A major Op. 69 (1808)

6 Freedom and control: the sonata in C major Op. 102 No. 1 (1815)

7 'Most remarkable and strange': the sonata in D major Op. 102 No. 2 (1815)

Interlude: Arranged sonatas

8 Opus Posthumum

Appendix 1: Primary sources of Beethoven's music for cello and piano

Appendix 2: Reviews of Beethoven's cello music by his contemporaries.