«Eroica»

With the first two tutti chords of the “Eroica,” which whip down like blows from nowhere, Beethoven opened up a new world for the symphony genre. Self-confident and self-assured, as he wrote to his publisher in 1802: “I am n…

With the first two tutti chords of the “Eroica,” which whip down like blows from nowhere, Beethoven opened up a new world for the symphony genre. Self-confident and self-assured, as he wrote to his publisher in 1802: “I am n…