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Eroica pronunciation

The Symphony No. One of Beethoven's most celebrated works, the Eroica symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of the composer's innovative "middle period". Composed mainly in —, the work broke boundaries in symphonic form, length, harmony, emotional and cultural content. It is widely considered a landmark in the transition between the Classical and the Romantic era.

It is also often considered to be the first Romantic symphony. Depending upon the conductor's style and observation of the exposition repeat in the first movement, the typical performance time is between 45 and 55 minutes. The first movement, in 3 4 time , is in sonata form , with typical performances between 12 and 18 minutes long depending on interpretation and whether the exposition repeat is played.

Eroica symphony meaning

The conductor Kenneth Woods has noted that the opening movement of Eroica has been inspired by and modeled on Mozart's Symphony No. The exposition begins with the cellos introducing the first theme. By the fifth bar of the melody m. The first theme is then transferred to wind instruments, then fragmented, moving through other keys with the b motif in canon and interchanged with a hemiola in the dominant, later moving between dominant and tonic.

The third theme of the second group eventually leads to a lyrical theme m. The climactic moment of the exposition arrives when the music is interrupted by six consecutive sforzando hemiola chords mm. Later, and following the concluding chords of the exposition mm. The status of these groups is debated as to which is more important in the structure.