Eroica

Oct 4, 2003

1h 29m

★ 7.3

The Day That Changed Music Forever

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Music

TV Movie

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Cast

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ian Hart

Prince Lobkowitz

Jack Davenport

Wranitzky

Peter Hanson

Josephine Deym

Claire Skinner

Josef Haydn

Frank Finlay

Reis

Leo Bill

Otto Fisher

Trevor Cooper

Princess Marie Lobkowitz

Fenella Woolgar

Therese Brunsvik

Lucy Akhurst

Kirsten

Victoria Shalet

Stella

Celina Liesegang

Franz

Jacob Engelberg

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