Following are abstracts from the 2012 New Beethoven Research Conference, held in New Orleans, LA, October 31–November 1, 2012.
- “Arnold Schmitz as a Beethoven Scholar: Achievement and Impact”
- “Beethoven and his Copyist: Written Dialogues”
- “Beethoven’s Sketches for Vestas Feuer and their Relationship to the ‘Eroica’ Symphony and Leonore”
- “Beethoven’s Handel and the Messiah Copies”
- “Finale finally, finely”: “The Recycled Presto in Beethoven’s Opus 47?
- “Model and Emulation: Beethoven and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Grand Trio”
- “Of Hunting, Horns, and Heroes: A brief history of E-flat major before the Eroica”
- “Parody of Learned Style in Beethoven’s Chamber Music”
- “Tracking Trends in Beethoven’s Compositional Style: Manuscript Materials from Nottebohm’s Nachlass”
- “What Beethoven might have learned from J.S. Bach”
- “Playing with Time: The Heiliger Dankgesang and the Evolution of Narrative Liberation in Op. 132″
- “Transformation Within the Frame: Beethoven’s Revision of the First Movement of the Cello Sonata in A Major, Opus 69”
- “Suspended Time: the Fugue in the Credo of the Missa Solemnis”