Home / Music / The Eroica's second movement is a funeral marchMusic linernotes album music ludwig-van-beethovenThe Eroica's second movement is a funeral marchA Marcia funebre as the slow movement was an unusual structural choice for a symphony at that time. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBeethoven's Op. 135 is the lightest of the late quartets — short, Classical, almost playfulBeethoven's First Symphony nods to Haydn and Mozart but the sforzandi are all his ownBeethoven's Hammerklavier held the title for longest standard piano sonataBeethoven's String Quartet No. 14 has seven connected movementsBeethoven's String Quartet No. 15 has five movementsExploreLa Llorona strips ranchera down to voice and guitarLreplace is dense Merzbow noise — all distortion and feedbackThe Master Musicians of Jajouka keep a centuries-old Sufi tradition aliveHarry Partch's Inanna retells the Sumerian descent into the underworldThe Neil Young Archives is a never-ending vault divePrevious The Hammerklavier's slow movement is one of music's greatestNext The Eroica Symphony doubled the length of symphonies and launched Romantic music
