Ballet Music: "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus"

The Creatures of Prometheus (German: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43) is a ballet composed in 1801 by Ludwig van Beethoven following the libretto of Salvatore Viganò. The overture to the ballet is part of the concert repertoire. Beethoven based the fourth movement of his Eroica Symphony and his Eroica Variations (piano) on the main theme of the last movement of the ballet.

Prometheus in other music compositions

• Prometheus: Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910) by Alexander Scriabin.
• Prometheus: opera by Gabriel Fauré, 1910.
• Prometheus: opera using Aeschylus's original Greek by Carl Orff, 1968.
• Prometheus: symphonic poem of Franz Liszt, 1850.

Media

External links

• The Creatures of Prometheus: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
• The Creatures of Prometheus: A contemporary movie adaption