Eroica (the movie) part 1/9

The Video belongsto the BBC.
It is 9 June 1804. At the palace of Prince Lobkowitz, Beethoven is conducting the first performance of his Third Symphony, the Eroica. And through this film we attend the performance.
Eroica was directed by Simon Cellan Jones, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique is lead by John Elliot Gardiner.
Ludwig van Beethoven is performed with spirit by Ian Hart. He rejoices, he becomes sad, he catches fire, casting looks - severe or rougish - and his anger all show a very endearing and appealing Beethoven.
Haydn has the last word. When speaking of the music, he concludes: "From today, everything is different".

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• Romantique

[jeffamarie]

Imagine the horn player playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in Eb without his Eb crook. XP

[gradgurl2007]

It's Professor Quirell.

[Davemustang2600]

Although I expect such comparisons it still does not cease to amaze me when people like these who have left comments compare cheese rolls and alphabet soup as a strike contrast to attest to a ring of what true genius and who is the better composer. To approach musicians like Beethoven and Mozart with such categorical insults is equal to or perhaps even greater than the ignorance which gives rise to such. Music is the language of feelings. Its communication on the deepest. 'Better' is irrelevant

[tywolfxox]

The only reason I'm watching this is because it has Joseph Morgan

[yohannbiimu]

@dadnapt24 my ignorant what...? Oh wait...do you mean "YOU'RE" ignorant? If so, explain yourself. Enlighten me.

[dadnapt24]

@yohannbiimu your ignorant...

[yohannbiimu]

@dadnapt24 That's just ignorant. That's like saying that Mozart couldn't measure up to J.S. Bach. They were two entirely different types of composers with entirely different approaches to the task of composing, laboring under two entirely different systems of employment. The stupidity of this entire argument is mind-boggling. Both were geniuses with a high level of ability in both performing music and in creating it. Why can't you people just accept what is true, and leave speculation alone?

[EmitFlestiKY]

@yohannbiimu Agreed,. Mozart died in late 1790 about a month shy of his 36th birthday. Had he lived just another 20 years, until 1810, he'd have been the same age as Beethoven when he died in 1827. The sad fact is, despite the greatness of what he had already achieved by age 35, no one will ever know where Mozart may have gone, and what further effect on musical history he would have had, had he lived into the 19th century. Imagine Mozart & Beethoven still alive in Vienna the1810s!

[jeffrypw4864]

This was a superb movie where they stove for period authenticity. I wish there were more like these on the great composers. Imagine, dramas for Brahams/Schumann, Mozart on the Prague premier of Don Giovanni, Hayden/Mozart jam sessions in Vienna, even old man Bach in his court.

[yohannbiimu]

You people comparing Mozart with Beethoven are like dogs urinating into the wind. The stupidity of it is so amusing. They were composers of two totally different times and styles, and to say that Mozart was superior assumes that he could have produced a piece of work like the Eroica, which he would never have had the perception to do, as Beethoven would never have had the perception to create a Mozartian opera. They were both great, and arguing about who was greater is idiotic.

[dadnapt24]

@CuriosityRoads Beethoven couldn't have matched up to Mozart any time, hes like grade 4 and Mozart is grade 1+

[CuriosityRoads]

@dadnapt24 Mozart was not a better composer. Only Mozart's last two symphonies come remotely close to Beethoven's better works in the genre. Dare I say it, the Eroica alone outdoes Mozart's entire symphonic output in the artistic heights it achieves. That's before we get started on piano sonatas and string quartets!