Beethoven’s Egmont Overture
The Egmont Overture is the first song in the incidental music for a play created from Goethe’s Egmont. Beethoven composed the music between 1809-1810 in Vienna and it was premiered on 15 June 1810. It represents one of the last pieces from Beethoven’s middle period. The plot of Goethe’s Egmont It is set in the sixteenth century Netherlands, when …