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THE BBC'
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(90 players)
Principal Violin, MARIE WILSON
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
Beethoven
1. Allegro con brio; 2. Marcia funebre : Adagio assai; 3. Scherzo : Allegro vivace; 4. Finale: Allegro molto--Poco andante-Presto
In 1902 Beethoven told one of his friends that he was not satisfied with his works up to the ' present' time. ' From today he said, ' I mean to take a new road.' The Symphony No. 3 in E flat, which was written the following year, plainly shows a new and individual Beethoven, no longer belonging to the school of Mozart and Haydn.
The ' Eroica ' was at first dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte , but the fury of the democratic Beethoven at Napoleon's proclaiming himself Emperor made him alter the dedication, though the ideal the composer had in mind remained to inspire the music. Attention may be briefly drawn to the heroic nature of the themes, particularly in the case of the first movement and the famous Funeral March movement.
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