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The Symphony No. 3 in E ♭ major, Op. 55, (also Italian Sinfonia Eroica, Heroic Symphony; German: Eroica, pronounced [eˈʁoːikaː] ⓘ) is a symphony in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven. One of Beethoven's most celebrated works, the Eroica symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of the composer's innovative ...
The theme was a favourite of Beethoven's. He had used it in the finale of the ballet music he composed for The Creatures of Prometheus (1801), as well as for the seventh of his 12 Contredanses, WoO 14 (1800-02), before being the subject of the variations of this work and of the later symphony. [1] It begins thus:
Lewis Lockwood suggests another reason to regard the work as a unity rather than a collection: starting with the second Bagatelle, the keys of the pieces fall in a regular succession of descending major thirds, a pattern Lockwood also notices in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and the String Quartet, Op. 127. [4]
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Performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra for the Musopen Kickstarter Project Performed by the Ulm Philharmonic, conducted by James Allen Gähres The Coriolan Overture (German: Coriolan-Ouvertüre or Ouvertüre zu Coriolan ), Op. 62, is a composition written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin 's 1804 tragedy ...
The Eroica Variations (Variations and Fugue for Piano in E♭ major, Opus 35, 1802), by Ludwig van Beethoven; Transcendental Étude No. 7 in E-flat, "Eroica" (1837), by Franz Liszt; The Internet Symphony No. 1 — Eroica, by Tan Dun for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra; The Eroica Trio, an American chamber music ensemble; Eroica, an album by ...
The quotation from the funeral march of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with the words "In Memoriam!" has also raised speculation. The Eroica theme is motivically related to one of the main themes of Metamorphosen, but Strauss wrote that the connection did not occur to him until he was almost finished. There are several theories about how and why ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 10 in E♭ major is a hypothetical work, assembled in 1988 by Barry Cooper from Beethoven's fragmentary sketches for the first movement. . All the sketches assembled were clearly intended for the same symphony, which would have followed the Ninth, since they appear together in several small groups, and there is consensus that Beethoven did intend to compose ...