Contents // List of Illustrations vi // List of Musical Examples viii // Acknowledgements x // Introduction i // 1 Defining Chamber Music in the Early Nineteenth Century 6 // 2 Celebrating Haydn, Cultivating Opera 23 // 3 Selling String Quartets in Beethovens Vienna 60 // 4 Locating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna 91 // 5 Early Nineteenth-Century Performance and Criticism 121 // 6 Sociability, Showmanship, and Study: ‘Quartet Friends’ 147 // 7 The String Quartet and the Listener 176 // 8 Schubert’s Song, Beethoven’s Theatricality 198 // Epilogue: Constructing ‘Viennese Chamber Music’ 222 // Bibliography 233 // Index 245