Uvertura egmont de ludwig van beethoven biography

Incidental music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1787 play

Egmont, Op.

84 by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.^[1] It consists of an overture followed by a sequence of nine pieces for soprano, male narrator, and full symphony orchestra.

The male narrator is optional; he is not used in the play and does not appear in some recordings of the complete incidental music.

Ludwig van Beethoven Egmont Overture for Piano 4 hands.

Ludwig van Beethoven Egmont Overture for Piano 4 hands.

Overture (from French ouverture, lit.

Da Johann Wolfgang von Goethes teaterstykke fra om Egmont skulle settes opp i Wien og scenemusikk ble etterlyst, tok Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810.^[2]

The subject of the music and dramatic narrative is the life and heroism of 16th-century nobleman Lamoral, Count of Egmont from the Low Countries.

It was composed during the Napoleonic Wars when the First French Empire had extended its domination over vast swathes of Europe. Beethoven had famously expressed his great outrage over Napoleon Bonaparte's decisi