Choreographer *Salvatore Viganò* asked the composer to write the music for _________ for a performance for Austrian empress *Maria Theresa*. In the ballet, two *statues* come to life; *___________* then takes them to *Parnassus* and exposes them to "the passions of human existence." They learn music from *Orpheus, tragedy and comedy* from the Muses, and dance from Pan and Bacchus. The ballet's overture, like _________ First Symphony, begins with dissonant chords giving way into a lilting melody. Its finale contains a theme ___________ would use in his "*Eroica" Symphony (No. 3)* and his Op. 35, the *Eroica Variations* for piano.
