I'm pretty sure Mozart wrote the soundtrack of our current times.

[sir pball]

The Dies Irae from his Requiem is one of the most apocalyptic pieces of music I've ever heard, and it's just about perfect for right now…"It will turn the world into ashes."

[some_of_us_are_sane]

1. Scary, but frightening apt

[Chasstev365]

2. When I see footage of the Trump goons storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, this plays in my head:

Like the beginning of the end of America:

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[Wounded Bear]

3. Hitler was a Wagner man...nt

[dalton99a]

4. We must fight back to save ourselves

(from YouTube comments)

Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic

Beethoven wrote this ouverture and several other numbers as stage music for Goethe's drama "Egmont", which has as its subject the uprising of the widely protestant Netherlands against the occupation by the spanish branch of the catholic Habsburgians in the second half of the 16th century, with the Count Egmont as its main hero, who fought heroically against the invaders, but got caught and sentenced to death by being publicly decapitated.

This character was based on the historical Count Lamoral de Egmond (1522 - 1568).

( The suddenly abrupting line in the first violins at 6:30, followed by a general pause of the whole orchestra, symbolizes the death of the hero, while the following triumphant coda of the piece foreshadows the uprising and final victory of the people against the spanish invaders.)