Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
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Thanks for that, HP. I may have heard Eroica a thousand times, but I couldn't imagine what it might have been like to hear the first performance. I understand that the tumult over the horn's early entrance in the first movement actually did happen. I wonder if the comments attributed to Hayden were real.
I loved the little quip where Beethoven called Ries an idiot, and Hayden said that was traditional. Beethoven moved to Vienna to study under Mozart, but Mozart died while he was traveling, so he was briefly Hayden's student.
It was, apparently, a bit of a shock to music.