Eroica

Eroica (2003)

The Day That Changed Music Forever

British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to 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 Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.

Date of release
2003-10-04
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama, Music, TV Movie
Director
Simon Cellan Jones

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Interesting facts

Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatised the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carried the tagline 'The day that changed music forever'.

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