Los Angeles Philharmonic: Dudamel Conducts Beethoven October 4, 2012

Beethoven's music was the sun around which Western music revolved for a century, and the 'Eroica' Symphony was the game-changer, the work that blasted the symphony into new dimensions of power, scale, and meaning. Beethoven the pianist also revolutionized what it meant to be a public performer, creating the template of the artist as a culture's creative conscience.