Word: eroica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvisation after another. He wrote with prodigious energy. First came trios, quartets, sonatas.* The first symphony was criticized for what then seemed to be an excessive use of brasses and timpani. Drums were pounding in ears already growing deaf when, at 34, Beethoven wrote the Third, the Eroica which Napoleon inspired...
...planets in the same degree as he. Schubert was born in January, and Ruth also has degrees in common with his. . . . She has planets in the same degree as Beethoven, and within ten years her Jupiter will have progressed to the same degree as his when he wrote his Eroica. . . . She will be high-strung and temperamental...
...concerts were built later. After the War, a group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences...
...composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last movement of "Eroica". The opening themeing is a characteristic of Franck, being rather mournful in essence but soon developed dramatically. From this "Sehnsucht" beginning the piece undergoes a transformation of mood and ends quite joyously...
...when he played and conducted the Concerto. Alternately he rippled off a solo passage, waved the baton, bobbed his head at the orchestra, beat time with a momentarily free hand. The sympathetic orchestra caught his swift mood, faithfully followed him then and later, through the formidable stretches of the Eroica. Happily convinced, the audience broke in with premature applause even more frequently than usual, twice rose in a body to applaud. Happy José Iturbi applauded the orchestra, grinned when they applauded back...