The Journal is an English-language periodical devoted to Beethoven and includes substantial essays, reviews of books and recordings, bibliographies of the latest books and dissertations, reports on the auction market, and much more.

The intended audience for this publication are the people who love Beethoven's music, who like to read about how his music has been understood and misunderstood in history, who are interested in keeping up with important Beethoven festivals and conferences, and who remain devoted to understanding his music in an ever richer manner.

The Beethoven Journal began publication in Spring 1986 as The Beethoven Newsletter. Beginning with Vol. 10 (Spring 1995), the title was changed to The Beethoven Journal. The Journal appears two times a year (formerly Spring and Fall; now Summer and Winter). Online access is currently available through the Proquest databases Periodicals Archive Online (back issues) and the International Index of Music Periodicals (recent issues).

Contents of The Beethoven Journal

Current issue

Vol. 27, no. 2 (Winter 2012)

1. Jean Kreiling, "'Yelling at Joy': Poetic Responses to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony." (pp. 56-63)

2. Grant Cook, "The Final American Residency of Beethoven's Biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer." (pp. 64-73)

3. William Meredith, "New Acquisitions (Summer 2012): The Yvonne Hummel Collection." (pp. 74-80)

4. Johann Pezzl, "Beethoven's Vienna: 'The Imperial Library,' Chapter 78 of Johann Pezzl's Skizze von Wien (1787)." (pp. 81-83)

5. Patricia Stroh, "Beethoven Auction Report." (pp. 84-85)

6. Patricia Stroh, "Recent Beethoven Publications and Related Books 2010-2012." (pp. 86-94)

7. WEBeethoven (pp. 95)

8. William Meredith, "Cramolini's Lock of Beethoven's Hair and a Translation of the Account of Beethoven's Funeral by Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried in Haslinger's First Edition of 'Beethoven's Begraebniss' (1827)." (pp.96-99)