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Eroica

Duration: 1 hour, 25 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Collaboration between the BBC's classical music and drama departments, a factual drama about the genesis of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, the Eroica. It is set over the course of a single day in June 1804 at the Viennese palace of Beethoven's patron, Prince Lobkowitz. The composer hears his music for the very first time and waits for the answer to his proposal of marriage from the woman he adores. Show less

Contributors

Beethoven:
Ian Hart
Prince Lobkowitz:
Jack Davenport
Count Dietrichstein:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Princess Marie Lobkowitz:
Fenella Woolgar
Otto Fisher:
Trevor Cooper
Paul Dorfmueller:
Jonathan Aris
Sukowaty:
Anton Lesser
Josephine:
Claire Skinner

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