Word: eroica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts of Shostakovitch's work which have rung true in the past have been the slow, introspective, semi-ecclesiastical movements like the first movement of his Fifth symphony. Here he is presenting the sombre, God-seeking element of Russian life that he understands. Beethoven was successful with his "Eroica" symphony in memory of Napoleon, because he himself was a big enough man to make the music strong and sincere. Shostakovitch is no Beethoven, and the twenties was not a time for breeding heroic figures, but what the present lacks in faith and breadth, it partially makes up in technique...
...prison like turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth. He did not like it, walked out before it was over. Murder from boredom struck him as a bourgeois idea. Besides, Stalin's musical taste runs to simple, more tuneful things, zigzags between Beethoven's Eroica and Verdi's Rigoletto. Also, he had a seat directly above the brasses...
...Westminster Choir singers, robed in white and maroon, the four soloists. Then sounded music of humanity, solace, peace, triumph: Beethoven's great Missa Solemnis, under the magic Toscanini touch. In later concerts, with the orchestra alone, the First and Second Symphonies emerged in shining clarity and freshness, the Eroica with towering architecture, and blazing spirit. By the time the Beethoven series ends, all nine symphonies, five overtures and the Triple Concerto will have been played...
...another, a seven-piece orchestra attempted Beethoven's Eroica...
Early one morning Chile's National Symphony Orchestra played the great funeral march from Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The black, copper coffin was placed upon a gun carriage and draped with the single-starred banner of the Republic. Then the cortege moved to Santiago Cathedral, where Archbishop Jose Maria Caro celebrated a two-hour Solemn High Mass for the soul of the man who had fixed low prices for the bread upon which millions of Chileans chiefly depend...