Contributors - Editorial Note and Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - List of Figures - List of Illustrations - List of Musical Quotations - List of Tables - Message from Dr Gottfried Haas, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany - MichealO'Siadhail, 'Hopscotch' and 'Caprice' - Susan Youens - Preface- Goethe's Musical Aesthetics- Otto Biba - Goethe's Presence in the Vienna Music Scene of his Era - Lorraine Byrne - Goethe and Zelter: An Exchange of Musical Letters - Goethe and Beethoven - Claus Canisius - Göthe and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity - Amanda Glauert - 'Ichdenkedein': Beethoven's Retelling of Goethe's Poetry - Moray McGowan - Fidelio and Faust in the German 'Wende' of 1989/90 - Goethe as Musical Catalyst - Jan Smaczny - Goethe and the Czechs - Briony Williams - Bettina von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity - Gareth Cox - Blumengruß und Blumenglöckchen: Goethe's Influence on Anton Webern - Musical and Philosophical Reflectionsof Wilhelm MeistersLehrjahre - Nicholas Boyle - Schumann's Requiem für Mignon and the Concept of Music as Literature - Julian Horton - Mignon's Exequies and Aesthetic Reflections of the Liturgy in Music - Adolf Nowak - SeóirseBodley - Mignon und der Harfner - Appendices - Appendix 1 | Conference Programme - Appendix 2 | Goethe and the Guitar -Index