Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1802/07/00 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Composer | In Heiligenstadt, Beethoven works on Piano Sonata Op 31, No 2 (The Tempest), the "Prometheus" Variations, Op 35, and begins his Third Symphony, Eroica. | Beethoven Museum | Vienna, AT | ||
| 1803/00/00 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Honoree | Ludwig van Beethoven dedicates his third symphony, Eroica (Hero), to Napoleon Bonaparte. The completed Eroica's Funeral March resembles the great funeral compositions of the French Republic. | ||||
| 1804/06/09 | Prince Lobkowitz pays 22 extra musicians to accompany his own for two rehearsals of Beethoven's Third Symphony. | Theatermuseum | Vienna, AT | ||||
| 1804/08/00 | The manuscript in the Musikfreunde is title "Sinfonia Grande Intitulata Bonaparte (A Great Symphony on Bonaparte), 'Bonapart' has been scratched out. The note, Geschrieben auf Bonapart (written in honor of Bonaparte) has not been erased. | Wiener Musikverein | Vienna, AT | ||||
| 1804/08/26 | Beethoven writes to publishers Breitkopf and Haertel to offer them "a grand new symphony ... which is really entitled Bonaparte." | ||||||
| 1804/10/22 | In the autumn, Beethoven re-dedicates his third symphony to Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz. "Lobkowitz wants (the rights to) it for half a year and is willing to give 400 ducats". - Ferdinand Ries to publisher Nikolaus Simrock | Theatermuseum | Vienna, AT | ||||
| 1804/12/00 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Composer | Ludwig van Beethoven performs "Symphony No 3" at Prince Lobkowitz's palace in Vienna. The festival hall is named 'Eroica-Saal' (Hero Room). | Theatermuseum | Vienna, AT | ||
| 1805/04/07 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Composer | The public premiere of Beethoven's "Third Symphony" is held at the Theater an der Wien. | Theater an der Wien | Vienna, AT | ||
| 1806/10/00 | Beethoven's Third Symphony is published as "Eroica" (Hero), with the subtitle, "per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo" (to celebrate the memory of a great man). | ||||||
| 1808/10/00 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Work | In the autumn, Jerome Bonaparte offers Beethoven 600 gold ducats a year if he will serve as court composer in the Court of Cassel. Archduke Rudolph, Princes Lobkowitz and Kinsky pay 4,000 florins a year so he can find a better position. | ||||
| 1822/07/00 | After hearing the news of Napoleon's death in May, Beethoven remarks, "I have already composed the proper music for that catastrophe." |
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| Particulars for Symphony No 3, Beethoven: | |||
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| Art Type | Orchestral Composition | ||
| Musical Composition | Symphony | ||
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