Begleitmusik: Der Wiener Kongress als kulturelles Ereignis / Sebastian Hansen -- Beethoven and Napoleon: a reassessment / William Kinderman -- Who is the hero? Beethoven's music for Egmont / Joanna Cobb Biermann -- Political and musical echoes of Beethoven's "heroic period" in his music for Leonore Prohaska / Barry Cooper -- Beethoven und der Wiener Kongress aus der Perspektive von Beethovens Briefen und Dokumenten / Maria Rössner-Richarz -- Beethoven in unpublished Viennese court documents from 1814 / Rita Steblin -- "In der ungeheuern Weite" Beethoven und die Ahnung des Göttlichen in Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt, Missa solemnis und Neunter Symphonie / Birgit Lodes -- Two contrabassoons and more: the personnel in Beethoven's orchestras for Symphony no. 7, Symphony no. 8, Wellingtons Sieg, and Der glorreiche Augenblick (1813-1814) / Theodore Albrecht -- Beethoven's popular style: Der glorreiche Augenblick and the art of writing for the galleries / John David Wilson -- From the church and theater into the concert hall: referential meaning in Beethoven's use of the trombone in his symphonies / dr David B. Levy -- Turned into song: Beethoven's Schubertian Sonata / Tamara Balter