Mozart's Eroica

[Michael]

I always wanted to hear this:


[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LVbNqPFu8[/YOUTUBE]

[Chris]

Yes, the overture to Bastien und Bastienne, I believe. The first time I heard it I certainly did think of the Eroica!

[Sorrano]

Mozart almost got it right.

[Peter]

Yes the similarities are well known and it is extremely unlikely that Beethoven ever heard Mozart's earlier piece. This demonstrates quite clearly that it isn't so much the material but what a composer does with it.

[Michael]

Mozart certainly didn't hear Beethoven's version.

Anyway, there are only a limited number of tunes you can get from an E flat major arpeggio.



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[Peter]

Mozart certainly didn't hear Beethoven's version.

Anyway, there are only a limited number of tunes you can get from an E flat major arpeggio.



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I'd say it was pretty infinite when you consider western music was constructed from the scale and arpeggio (17th- 20th century). Just consider the last movt of the 6th symphony which sounds nothing like the Eroica but the theme is simarly based on an arpeggio pattern.

[Michael]

I'd say it was pretty infinite when you consider western music was constructed from the scale and arpeggio (17th- 20th century). Just consider the last movt of the 6th symphony which sounds nothing like the Eroica but the theme is simarly based on an arpeggio pattern.

I stand corrected. Music is like a game of chess: hard to believe that the permutations can be almost infinite. Otherwise, we would have run out of tunes many centuries ago.

[Quijote]

These tunes you're talking about : they all the sound the same to me.