Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' Opening Comparison (35 Performances)

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Beethoven's secretary, Ferdinand Ries said: I was the first to tell him the news that Buonaparte had declared himself Emperor, whereupon he broke into a rage and exclaimed, "So he is no more than a common mortal! Now, too, he will tread under foot all the rights of Man, indulge only his ambition; now he will think himself superior to all men, become a tyrant!" Beethoven went to the table, seized the top of the title-page, tore it in half and threw it on the floor. The page had to be recopied, and it was only now that the symphony received the title Sinfonia eroica.

Composed mainly in 1803–1804, the work was instrumental in breaking the boundaries of form, length, harmony, and perceived emotional and possibly cultural content. It has therefore widely been considered an important landmark in the transition between the Classical and the Romantic era. It is also often considered to be the first Romantic symphony.

An extant copy of the score bears two scratched-out, hand-written sub-titles; initially, the Italian phrase Intitolata Bonaparte ("Titled Bonaparte"), secondly, the German phrase Geschriben auf Bonaparte ("Written for Bonaparte"), four lines below the Italian sub-title. Three months after retracting his initial Napoleonic dedication of the symphony, Beethoven informed his music publisher that "The title of the symphony is really Bonaparte". In 1806, the score was published under the Italian title Sinfonia Eroica ... composta per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grande Uomo ("Heroic Symphony, Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man").
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0:00 Mariss Jansons, Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk
0:51 David Zinman, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
1:35 Christian Thielemann, Vienna Philharmonic
2:27 Paavo Järvi, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
3:10 Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker
4:00 Andrés Orozco-Estrada, hr-Symphonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony)
4:43 Lorin Maazel, Philharmonia Orchestra
5:35 Philippe Herreweghe, Radio Kamer Filharmonie
6:22 Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker
7:08 Sir Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic
7:51 Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
8:40 Myung-whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
9:31 Gustavo Dudamel, Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra
10:20 Thomas Dausgaard, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
11:03 Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra
11:56 Sir Roger Norrington, SWR Symphonieorchester (Baden-Baden)
12:41 Bernard Haitink, Orchestre national de France
13:34 Alondra de la Parra, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
14:20 Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
15:09 American Youth Symphony, Carlos Izcaray
15:55 Herbert Blomstedt, Orchestre de Paris
16:41 Carlo Maria Giulini, Los Angeles Philharmonic
17:39 John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
18:21 Karl Böhm, Berliner Philharmoniker
19:14 Jordi Savall, Le Concerts des Nations
19:55 Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berliner Philharmoniker (1952 version)
20:49 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
21:31 Sergiu Celibidache, Münchner Philharmoniker
22:26 Erich Kleiber, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
23:12 Bruno Walter, New York Philharmonic (1949)
24:03 Bruno Walter, New York Philharmonic (1941)
24:52 Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra (London, 1959)
25:47 Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra (1953)
26:32 Natalia Ensemble (nonet version)
27:15 Nicholas Collon, Aurora Orchestra (BBC Proms, analysis, performance and demonstration excerpt with Tom Service)

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