Eroica

The Day That Changed Music Forever

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.

Cast

Ian Hart

Jack Davenport

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Peter Hanson

Claire Skinner

Frank Finlay

Leo Bill

Trevor Cooper

Fenella Woolgar

Lucy Akhurst

Victoria Shalet

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Celina Liesegang

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Jacob Engelberg