Overview
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Director
Simon Cellan Jones
Cast
Ian Hart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jack Davenport
Prince Lobkowitz
Peter Hanson
Wranitzky
Claire Skinner
Josephine Deym
Frank Finlay
Josef Haydn
Leo Bill
Reis
Trevor Cooper
Otto Fisher
Fenella Woolgar
Princess Marie Lobkowitz
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