MaggotInfestedGoat
Absolutely correct. There have been studies on where Beethoven got his "Eroica" theme. Noted musicologists Leon Plantinga and Alexander Ringer both assert that the inspiration for the theme came from Muzio Clementi. Plantinga theorizes that its source is Clementi’s Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 13, No. 6, while Ringer says the first movement (Allegro con spirito) of Clementi’s Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 7, No. 3 was its inspiration