Corrado Augias and “The heroic Beethoven”: the journey of the emperor who redesigned Europe
A lesson between history and music

BOLOGNA – “L’eroico Beethoven”, the title of the show by Repubblica which with the participation of Maestro Aurelio Canonici, was staged at RepIdee on the stage of the Arena del Sole in Bologna where there is not a free seat. A journey to the origins of the Eroica, the German composer’s third symphony, dedicated to Napoleon, the emperor who redrew the map of the old continent … However, Beethoven’s musical revolution was now complete as Maestro Canonici illustrates on the piano, passage after passage, analyzing each of the four movements of the musical masterpiece … to the applause of the spectators.
Emanuela Giampaoli, La Repubblica.it, 09 JUNE 2023 https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/cultura/rep-idee-2023/2023/06/09/news/corrado_augias_repubblica_delle_idee-403872308/