There are many resonances social and musical in the densely woven fabric of movements Beethoven fashioned in 1803, which was finally published in 1806 as a symphony now called Eroica. With it he reached his full maturity by joining his Aufklärung ethos with his music. In the framework of metaphors and symbols conveyed by means of a few words—Bonaparte, Marcia funèbre, Eroica—and otherwise in notes, shapes, forms, analogies, there is a final crucial point. Das Thema of the first movement was made from the finale’s Prometheus bass and the englische melody. If the theme of the first movement is
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