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dalton99a

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Mon Mar 2, 2026, 10:04 PM
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(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.)

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