Eroic A Performance Of Beethoven's Third Symphony

The film Eroica incorporates a performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony. The creators shaped the overall story to make statements about art, music, and history without being didactic. They wanted to emphasize the novelty of Beethoven’s Romantic style of composition and the personalities of artists that were living in the late 18th century in Europe. They also wanted to underline other historical features such as the nature of a society, which was based on submissiveness to inherited rank as well as the relationship between revolutionary art and revolutionary politics.

This movie combined historical facts with biographical speculation keeping them both in balance without exaggerating either of the two. Creators used Beethoven experts like