Selection from the Ballet Music to 'Prometheus'...Beethoven

The music for the Ballet The Men of Prometheus was the first of Beethoven's works of any importance that was connected with the stage. He wrote an Overture, with an 'Introduction' and sixteen incidental pieces, for the work, which was produced in Vienna in 1801 (when he was thirty-one).
The Ballet was based on the legend of Prometheus, who made clay images of men and stole fire from heaven to bring them to life.
The Ballet was highly successful, being presented sixteen times in the year of its composition, and thirteen times in 1802.