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Lecture: "Positioning of rulers: inside" Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major op. 55 "Eroica" Symphony Orchestra of the HfMT Conductor: Ulrich Windfuhr Lecture: Science Slam At the start of this year's series, the State Orchestra will not only give the stage to the "Science Slam" for a lecture on the topic of "Positioning rulers" in the 1st themed concert on Monday, February 17, in the Small Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, but also to the orchestra of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama under the direction of Ulrich Windfuhr. The orchestra will play a symphony that deals with the splendor of a ruler (and his downfall) like few others: Ludwig van Beethoven's Third. He titled it "Sinfonia eroica" in 1804, a "heroic symphony composed to celebrate the memory of a great man", in his own words. Whether this "great man" was supposed to be little Napoleon - at first, he probably was. However, Beethoven probably destroyed a dedication to this effect, as for the composer the coronation of the Corsican emperor by his own hand was a bitter betrayal of the republican ideas of the French Enlightenment. Was Beethoven himself perhaps a hero, an innovator in the music-historical sense? After all, he truly broke new ground with his Eroica ...

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