Deceptively credited to Beethoven, this solemn march, with a long history and deep ties with the Royal Family, stands up without an illustrious name behind it. As the funeral procession began the ...
"Into the Open: Freedom and Utopia in Music" was the motto of the Beethovenfest 2010. A perfect example is Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony, the "Eroica." Never before had a composer of ...
Beethoven's second compositional phase, often known as his heroic period, is most obviously exemplified in the Eroica Symphony of 1803-4. But, as the slow movement of his Op. 26 Piano Sonata shows, ...