Richard Strauss quoted this symphony's slow movement above the remark "In memoriam!"
Richard Strauss quoted this symphony's slow movement above the remark "In memoriam!" at the end of Metamorphosen. Pizzicato strings play a bass line starting on scale degrees 1Â 5Â 5Â 1 after a flourish to open this symphony's finale, a double variation on themes used in The Creatures of Prometheus. A held C-sharp in bar 7 of this symphony's first movement disappears in its long coda. (*) Cellos and basses play its quiet arpeggiated first theme after two loud tutti chords. This symphony began its composer's middle period and Romantic music as a whole. The horn, over a dominant chord, begins its first movement's recapitulation 4Â bars before other instruments. Its second movement is a C minor funeral march. The composer rededicated it to "a great man" after Napoleon's coronation. For 10 points, name this symphony in E-flat major by Beethoven.
Richard Strauss quoted this symphony's slow movement above the remark "In memoriam!"
Eroica Symphony [accept Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven, but "Beethoven" is only needed until it is read]