Eroica

The Day That Changed Music Forever

Eroica — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 4, 2003
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama, Music, TV Movie
• Director
• Simon Cellan Jones

Eroica — Cast

Ian Hart Ludwig van Beethoven Jack Davenport Prince Lobkowitz

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Peter Hanson Wranitzky Claire Skinner Josephine Deym Frank Finlay Josef Haydn Leo Bill Reis Trevor Cooper Otto Fisher Fenella Woolgar Princess Marie Lobkowitz