Home / Music / The Eroica Symphony doubled the length of symphonies and launched Romantic musicMusic linernotes album music ludwig-van-beethovenThe Eroica Symphony doubled the length of symphonies and launched Romantic musicBeethoven’s Eroica roughly doubled the length of previous symphonies and is widely considered the work that launched the Romantic era in orchestral music. 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 movementsExploreFleetwood Mac's Mirage was released on Warner Bros. Records in 1982Getz/Gilberto was released on Verve Records in 1964Grandmaster Flash's The Message was released on Sugar Hill Records in 1982Herbie Hancock's Thrust was released on Columbia Records in 1974Shirley Horn's I Remember You was released on Verve Records during her late-career renaissancePrevious The Eroica's second movement is a funeral marchNext The eight-year-old Mozart learned from J.C. Bach in London