Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Musical Examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. String Chamber Music and Its Audiences in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Publishing Chamber Music: Archival Evidence for Chamber Music Production and Consumption -- 2. "Domesticating" the Foreign in Arrangements of Operas, Folk Songs, and Other Works for Chamber Ensembles -- 3. Music for Men of Leisure: An Examination of the Domestic String Style -- 4. Redefining the "Progressive" Style in Responses to Beethoven's Late Quartets -- 5. Creating "Progressive" Communities through Programmatic Chamber Music -- 6. Audience and Style in Brahms's String Chamber Music -- 7. The Diversity of Dvořák's String Quartet Audiences -- Appendix 1 J. Strunz, string quartet transcription of no. 18, "Prière" (Prayer), from Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable -- Appendix 2 C. W. Henning, string quartet transcription of no. 8, "Leise, leise, fromme Weise" (Gently, gently, pious words), from Weber's Der Freischütz -- Appendix 3 M. Kässmayer, string quartet arrangement of "Mein Herz ist im Hochland" (My heart is in the Highlands) from Deutsche Lieder, op. 14, no. 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.