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Released
2003 · FILM

Eroica

The Day That Changed Music Forever

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Runtime
89 min
DramaMusicTV Movie

Synopsis

British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama *Eroica*, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, the TV film portrays the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony on June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz, played by Jack Davenport, has invited friends to witness Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

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Edited by Joe WalkerShot by Barry AckroydDesigned by David Roger

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  • Eroica – The day that changed music foreverde

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