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To celebrate the memory of a great man in my life and the heroes in your lives….
See Beethoven’s Eroica: Historical Overview for some background on the symphony and its genesis, from the web site Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.
Also, the San Francisco Symphony has a web site called Keeping Score, featuring multimedia presentations about several composers and their key works, including Berlioz, Beethoven, Copland, Ives, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony is featured here: A Symphonic Revolution. Even if you can’t read musical scores (and I can’t either), it’s fascinating to follow the score as excerpts from the music play.
The video above features the complete performance in two parts, with Herbert von Karajan conducting. It runs about fifty minutes and would be a fine use of less than an hour of your time to sit back and listen to the whole thing. Enjoy!
. I’m sorry to hear about plumbing problems at your house. I’m pretty sure that it is a quite distraction when you hope to be able to spend times on other interesting...