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It was

beginning to go death.

to go death.

In an effort to pull himself out of a depression, he left Vienna for a small village five miles to the north, to spend time in nature and see if he could find any musical inspiration.

It was on a walk through the countryside that a melody popped into his head, a theme in

E-flat major.

Eventually, over a year, that theme transformed into a full symphony, Beethoven's

third, titled Arroyka or Heroic. People far more knowledgeable about classical music than I am celebrate

the symphony as groundbreaking, challenging, and brilliant, a landmark of Beethoven's career that I've seen described as the first romantic

symphony marking the end of the classical period. But it wasn't originally titled Eroika. It had an earlier name which Beethoven wrote himself on the symphony's title page as soon as the work was completed in early 1804.

Symphonia in Titulata Bonaparte.

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