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1. What is Knittel’s thesis? In other words, what is she trying to prove in this essay? It might help to separate out the questions that motivated her essay and what she argues. There is a lot of historical detail in her essay; if you have a good sense of her goal before you dive in, the reading will be a lot more straight­forward. 
   2. What are the central features of the Beethoven myth? 
   6. Why was the perceived organic unity of Beethoven’s works such an important metaphor in a German nationalist context?