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Beethoven’s Eroica
The First Great Romantic Symphony
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- On Sale
- Dec 5, 2017
- Page Count
- 192 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781541697546
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$12.99Price
$16.99 CADFormat
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- ebook $12.99 $16.99 CAD
- Hardcover $25.00 $33.00 CAD
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In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the “Eroica,” rudely broke the mold of the Viennese Classical symphony and revealed a powerful new expressiveness, both personal and societal. Even the whiff of actual political revolution was woven into the work-it was originally inscribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, a dangerous hero for a composer dependent on conservative royal patronage. With the first two stunning chords of the “Eroica,” classical music was transformed.
In Beethoven’s Eroica, James Hamilton-Paterson reconstructs this great moment in Western culture, the shock of the music and the symphony’s long afterlife.
