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The research consists in investigating the historical-interpretative proposal of the 20th century german musicologist, Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989), on some of his texts about the musical forms development since the beginning of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th, according to the perspective of a "Beethoven-Hegelian tradition" pointed out and described by the american musicologist Janet Schmalfeldt, who takes him not only as the "foremost preserver" of this tradition, but also as "the readiest to substantiate his views by offering concrete analytic observations". Unlike Schmalfeldt's more specifically musicological, analytical-musical approach, however, this work will seek to identify the contours of the development in its aesthetical-musical side - where Beethoven's music is central as an object to the establishment of the debate on musical form, and where the appropriation of concepts, methods and contents of idealism by the same debate also becomes inevitable from a determined moment in time.