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The Internet Symphony No. 1 - "Eroica", is a piece written by the Chinese composer Tan Dun for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.It was the first of such events where musicians around the world play the same piece virtually via the internet, and the best performers selected were arranged into an internet symphony orchestra, featured on YouTube.
The film is set in Vienna on 9 June 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, later to be known as the 'Eroica'. The performance, and most of the action in the film, takes place at the palace of one of Beethoven's patrons, Prince Franz Lobkowitz.
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 ...
They are commonly referred to as the Eroica Variations because a different set of variations on the opening bass line section were used as the finale of his Symphony No. 3 Eroica composed the following year. [1] Musicologists Leon Plantinga and Alexander Ringer claim that the inspiration for the Eroica theme may have come from Classical era ...
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
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
Even in the Romantic period, with its greater use of minor keys and the ability to use trumpets and timpani in any key, C major remained a very popular choice of key for a symphony. The following list includes only the most famous examples. Ludwig van Beethoven. Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (1800) Georges Bizet. Symphony in C (1855) Paul Dukas ...
Symphony No. 1 in C major 1799–2 April 1800 p: Leipzig 1801 Baron Gottfried van Swieten: i/1 i/1 [6] Op. 36 Symphony No. 2 in D major 1801–5 April 1803 p: Vienna, 1804; for piano, violin, cello: Vienna, 1805 Prince Karl von Lichnowsky: i/2 i/1 [6] Op. 55 Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" in E ♭ major 1803–7 April 1805 [8] p: Vienna, 1806