Glenn Stanley opens Beethoven Forum 6 with a consideration of the "piano sonata culture" of the late eighteenth century and how Beethoven's sonatas influenced this culture. Lawrence Kramer explores the "Tempest" sonata and the way it exemplifies "one of the leading intellectual projects of the Enlightenment, the project of speculative anthropology or 'universal history.'" Elaine R. Sisman examines the "lyrical," "small-scale" sonatas of Beethoven's...