Bill Pirkle wrote:

>Joyce Maier wrote:
>
>>Amusing, all these different feelings about Napoleon and the Emperor
>>concerto.  For it's not true that Beethoven wrote if for Napoleon.
>>He wrote only one piece for the man: the Eroica.  ...
>
>That is amazing.  I was under the impression that Beethoven actually tore
>up the dedication page and rededicated it to Archduke Rudolph after hearing
>that Napoleon had crowned himself Emperor of France.  Am I thinking about
>the 3rd symphony or is this story a fable.

That's the 3rd Symphony story all right, but it wasn't Rudolph who received
the dedication after the "incident." I think it was Count Lichnowsky, but
don't quote me on that.:) Plus, the tearing up of the dedication page may
or may not have happened.  The composer certainly scratched the name out
so furiously on the autograph copy that he wore a hole right through the
paper.  He replaced it with the epitaph "in memory of a great man" or words
to that effect.

>My apologies to the list..

"No problemo" as far as I'm concerned.

Mark K. Ehlert