Word: timpani
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flagrantly boorish at the fashionable soirées where he would sit down at the piano, pour out one 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...