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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 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.
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 key of C minor was, like most other minor keys, associated with the literary Sturm und Drang movement during the Classical period. But ever since Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, of 1808, C minor imparts a symphony in the key a character of heroic struggle.
His Eroica Symphony, Emperor Concerto and Grand Sonata are all in this key. Beethoven's (hypothetical) 10th Symphony is also in E-flat. But even before Beethoven, Francesco Galeazzi identified E-flat major as "a heroic key, extremely majestic, grave and serious: in all these features it is superior to that of C." [1]
The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third movement), and the ...
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
1: Eroica: 2009: A theme from Beethoven's Eroica symphony is borrowed: Antonín Dvořák: 1: Zlonické zvony: The Bells of Zlonice: 9: Z nového světa: From the New World: A.k.a. New World Symphony; Previously listed as No. 8 Petr Eben: 1: Simphonia Gregoriana: Gregorian Symphony: 1954: For Organ and Orchestra Hanns Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie ...