Bill Pirkle ([log in to unmask]) 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. ...
>
>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.

You're thinking of the Eroica.  He didn't actually tear out the page, just
scratched out the dedication (he almost went thorugh the paper in places).

According to Czerny (?) B went ballistic when hearing that Napoleon had
crowned himself, proclaiming "so he too is a mere mortal!"

Deryk Barker
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