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In two ballet works, de Falla distils the musical essence of the Andalusian soul. The Three-Cornered Hat tells the story of a miller’s wife who, along with her husband, mocks the local magistrate who’s fallen in love with herEl amor brujo is about the widow Candelas, who twirls with her lover in an attempt to exorcise the spirit of her dead husband, and dances into the arms of her friend Lucía with the famous/notorious Ritual Fire Dance. Meanwhile, in composing his Third Symphony, the Eroica , Beethoven laid the foundation for the great Classical/Romantic symphony: longer, more dynamic, and more monumental than ever before!