Eroica meaning

Title:Symphony No.3, op.55, in E-flat major (Eroica)

Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Last time performed by the Rhode Island Philharmonic: Last performed March 24, 2012 with Larry Rachleff conducting. This piece is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

The Story:True to its name, the “Eroica” is indeed one of the most heroic feats accomplished by any artist in the last few hundred years. “Once the ‘Eroica’ existed,” says Columbia University Composition Professor Jonathan Kramer, “no subsequent composer could ignore it. The development of 19th-century symphonic music is traceable more to the ‘Eroica’ than to any other single work, and it took composers more than a century to exhaust its implications.”

A decade after the French Revolution – an event which L eroica di beethoven biography list!