Len Fehskens wrote:

>BIlly Kitson asks:
>
>>Oh, "hold on" What was the Eroica's" first title?? The "Napoleon"??
>
>Was it the title or the dedication?

Firstly the dedication, but (someone else wrote this already) Beethoven
withdrew this dedication after he had learned that Napoleon had decided
to declare himself an emperor (March 1804).  Later on, in summer 1804, he
wrote to a publisher that "actually" the symphony was entitled "Bonaparte"
(not Napoleon!) The difference:  General Bonaparte versus Emperor Napoleon.
He admired the first and disliked the second.

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