The annotated first page of Beethoven’s manuscript fair copy of the Eroica’s second movement, the Funeral March. It is curious that he should have written the word ‘Marcia’ in large and florid penmanship with the much smaller ‘funebre’ tacked on below it—almost as an afterthought.

CREDIT: ARCHIV, BIBLIOTHEK UND SAMMLUNGEN DER GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE IN WIEN