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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