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	Web Lesson
		The overture introduces the audience to the main characters and the themes of the play: Egmont’s strength of character, Klärchen’s love for him, and the proclamation of the Netherlanders’ victory over the Spanish.
		Ludwig von Beethoven was born in December of 1770 in Bonn, Germany, the second-oldest child of the court musician and tenor singer Johann van Beethoven.
		The play was put to rest for five years until the great German actor Iffland arrived in Weimar and expressed interest in playing the role of Egmont.
	courses.wcupa.edu /frichmon/mue332/spring2002/kengreene (3433 words)

	Egmont (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1787, with an overture and incidental music by Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1809.
		Egmont is a famous Flemish warrior and the duc of Albe represents the Spanish invader.
		Egmont is a political manifesto in which Egmont's craving for justice and national liberty is opposed to the despotic authority of the duc of Albe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egmont_(play) (329 words)

	Egmont
		Egmont is a play by Goethe telling the tale of a 16th century Flemish Count who is sentenced to death by the occupying Spaniards.
		The play is probably best known today for the overture that Ludwig van Beethoven wrote for it.
		Egmont is a company that publishes Disney comics in Italy, Denmark, Germany and other countries.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/eg/Egmont.html (123 words)

	High Resolution Bathymetry Mapping of Tampa Bay - Greg - USF
		Egmont Key is the subaerial portion of the ebb-tidal delta of Tampa Bay, Florida.
		It is commonly presumed that the area north of Egmont is either a hole or several holes, however preliminary mapping shows Egmont Deep to be two holes clearly defined on their northern edge by steep scarps that become integrated with, and perhaps influence the dredged channel area.
		Egmont Key is bounded by Egmont Channel to the north and by Southwest Channel to the south.
	www.marine.usf.edu /geology/moontan/cfloor/greg/poster (1605 words)

	EDGMON and KIN Family Files
		The Egmont in the play is much more like Goethe himself than Egmont's historical self; Egmont did however show some of the same charm of personality, love of freedom, aversion to conventionality, the same joy of life, the same strong, self reliant individuality which were elements of Goethe's own character.
		Egmont was the spark that ignited the energy of the Sea Beggars, who were the true liberators of Holland from the yoke of Spain.
		Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, was attracted to Goethe's Egmont because of his Flemish heritage and Egmont's legendary role in Holland's freedom and through his own principles of freedom and equality for all individuals.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~edgmon/efambio57.htm (708 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		Egmont, although himself a Catholic, goes to Madrid to plead for clemency for the Protestants.
		Egmont is imprisoned and eventually executed for treason, his martyr's death sounding the cry for rebellion and the Netherlanders' eventual expulsion of their Spanish overlords.
		Goethe's Egmont goes to his death -- for which Beethoven provides his most heroic, defiant music -- with a stirring speech in which he is transformed from the man of reason cum dreamer of the earlier portions of the play into a rabble-rousing warrior.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=642 (1318 words)

	Telenor and Egmont Join Forces: Cartoons Soon to be Seen on Your Mobile Phone : ArriveNet Press Releases : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Egmont is one of Europe's biggest players in the entertainment business, and has proved particularly attractive within the youth segment.
		Egmont is an international media conglomeration producing quality entertainment for children and adults who watch, read, listen and play.
		Egmont comprises 100 companies with 4.200 employees in 24 countries, 16 of which are in Norway.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/315714.html (582 words)

	Park Summary for Print - Egmont Key State Park » Florida State Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the 19th century, the island served as a camp for captured Seminoles at the end of the Third Seminole War and was later occupied by the Union Navy during the Civil War.
		Egmont Key is located at the mouth of Tampa Bay, southwest of Fort DeSoto Beach.
		The nearest camping facility to Egmont is Fort DeSoto County Park (727)582-2267.
	www.floridastateparks.org /egmontkey/ParkSummary.cfm (956 words)

	Egmont
		Egmont, a play by Goethe, about Lamoral, Count of Egmond.
		Egmont, the overture and incidental music by Beethoven composed for the play.
		Mount Egmont is the alternative name for Mount Taranaki in New Zealand, and gives its name to the Egmont National Park.
	www.buzznet.com /buzzwords/egmont (170 words)

	Watford Philharmonic Society
		Egmont was a 16th century Flemish nobleman, famous at first for defending his country against the French, but increasingly resistant to King Philip’s attempts to rule the Netherlands as merely a dependency of Spain.
		In the overture one can hear Egmont’s grim resolve, his wife’s pleading and, in a succession of slow soft chords, his death followed by a final awakening of the nation and victory march to freedom.
		Beethoven may also have known that the Duke of Alva, King Philip’s governor, ordered the trumpets to play at Egmont’s execution so that his final speech from the scaffold should not be heard.
	www.btinternet.com /~adrianwarman/watfordphil/reviews/review71_4.htm (1383 words)

	Andrews University Orchestra Concert - February 13, 1999
		In fact, while the overture to Egmont is frequently performed in the concert hall, the rest of the score has failed to gain an independent concert life because of its dependence on the text of the play.
		Count Egmont is portrayed as a young, heroic nobleman, who tries to negotiate a more moderate Spanish rule, but is cruelly martyred.
		Beethoven's overture introduces the main characters and prepares the audience for the themes of the play: Egmont's strength of character, Klärchen's love for him, and the proclamation of victory of the Netherlanders.
	www.andrews.edu /~mack/pnotes/feb1399.html (983 words)

	Images of Goethe through Schiller's `Egmont' by Deirdre Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		in order to understand the full significance of Egmont, as well as of other dramatic works.' Those other systems are brought into play throughout the study by means of fairly brief synoptic presentations of many of the most significant performances of Egmont captured on stage and film from 1789 (Mainz) to 1986/87 (Frankfurt/Main).
		It was in fact Borcherdt's own assertion of the importance of Schiller's stage adaptation of Goethe's play as a key to the differences between text and performance that led John to devote renewed attention to the manuscript with all its additional markings.
		Schiller saw the original ending of Goethe's play - Egmont's vision of Gretchen - as a serious flaw, a leap into the realm of the improbable, acceptable perhaps in the world of opera but not of theatre.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/egmont67.html (602 words)

	Classical Themes In The Parlor, part 1
		In this case, the overture (and some additional music) was written as incidental music for a play of the same name by Goethe which premiered in 1810.
		There he played the violin and harpsichord in the opera house, where his operas Almira and Nero were performed in 1705.
		The fashion for playing the Wedding March recessional at weddings originates from a performance of this piece at the wedding of the English Royal Princess after Mendelssohn's death in 1858.
	parlorsongs.com /issues/2001-12/thismonth/featurea.asp (3053 words)

	Concert Review: PSO's 'Pastime' merits future play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Meyer opened the program with a spirited reading of Beethoven's "Overture to Egmont," a drama by Goethe about a man condemned to death for having taken a strong stand against oppression.
		The performance was highlighted by exquisite ensemble in the woodwinds.
		"Pastime" was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony (the orchestras representative of the cities where the three men played) and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/07022/755776-42.stm (508 words)

	Pasadena Symphony:Program Notes- May 5, 2000
		In 1808, Josef Hartl was named manager of the Vienna Court Theaters, and began running revivals of plays by Schiller and Goethe.
		The play is based on the life of Count Egmont (1522-1568), a Netherlandish patriot.
		Egmont is transformed, his noble death leads to freedom, the bonds of tyranny are broken.
	www.sgvmedia.com /Pasadenasym.com/pn_may5.html (1850 words)

	Egmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egmont, a play by Goethe, about Lamoral, Count of Egmond; with an overture and incidental music by Beethoven.
		Egmont a Scandinavian media group, founded in 1878.
		Mount Egmont is the alternative name for Mount Taranaki in New Zealand, and gives its name to the Egmont National Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egmont (157 words)

	NPRN Composer of the Month
		Originally the sonata was written with a slow movement that eventually appeared as a separate piece, the "Andante Favori," but Beethoven soon replaced it with a slow introduction to the last movement which is one of his profoundest pages.
		Among Beethoven's stage works is incidental music to Goethe's tragedy "Egmont." The play is set in Flanders in the 16th century when it was under Spanish rule.
		This play spoke strongly to Beethoven's egalitarian ideals, and he responded with a marvelous overture which encapsulates Egmont's heroism, his yearning for freedom, and the eventual victory of his cause.
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmbeethovenday3.html (983 words)

	Bilkent News Interactive
		Ludwig van Beethoven's incidental music for Goethe's tragedy, Egmont, was not ready in time for the premiere of the play.
		It was on the fourth performance on June 15, 1810, in the Court Theatre in the Hofburg, Vienna, that this imposing music was heard for the first time.
		Because Beethoven was writing music for a play, he had to decide if the overture should encapsulate the entire drama or act more as an introduction to set the mood of the opening scene.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~Bilnews/issue_5_13/basso.html (699 words)

	Magazines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Egmont magazines cater for a huge range of interests and readers.
		Readers count on Egmont to provide inspiring and entertaining weeklies for families as well as contemporary magazines for readers that share specific interests and lifestyles.
		In the Nordic and European countries Egmont publishes major family weeklies, inspiring women’s magazines, topical illustrated weeklies, kids and teens magazines and a wide spectrum of monthly and special interest magazines.
	www.egmont.com /Magazines (169 words)

	From Atlanta to Munich Via Beethoven's 'Egmont'
		Peter Oundjian, the former first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet, whose playing career has been sidetracked by loss of fine motor control in his left hand to a disease called focal dystonia, was continuing his courageous move into a new specialty, conducting, here with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
		The overture, written to introduce a Goethe play, brilliantly evokes the defiant strength of its hero, who is modeled after a 16th-century warrior executed for his role in the fight to free the Netherlands from Spanish dominion.
		But the lack of appropriate acknowledgment can seem mean-spirited, as when Lorin Maazel, an American conductor after all, and the Pittsburgh Symphony played at Avery Fisher Hall in New York in 1990 with nary a nod to the death three days before of a former denizen of the house, Leonard Bernstein.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0731/oly-beethoven-egmont-adv04.html (825 words)

	Egmont - We bring stories to life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Egmont recorded a 5% increase in revenue and EBITDA in 2006.
		Today Egmont entered into an agreement to sell its Swedish book publishing company, Damm Förlag AB, to Forma Publishing...
		Until Sunday February 25, it will be possible to experience ALT for damerne Live, a womens´ lifestyle fair, at the...
	www.egmont.com (216 words)

	Untitled Document
		Although Beethoven’s Egmont Overture is frequently heard in the concert hall, the complete incidental music to Goethe’s drama has been performed only three times by the Los Angeles Philharmonic: in August 1931 (Pierre Monteux, conducting), March 1945 (Erich Leinsdorf, conducting) and in March 1973 with Lawrence Foster on the podium.
		Beethoven was attracted to Goethe’s Egmont because of his Flemish heritage and Egmont’s legendary role in Holland’s freedom.
		The now-famous Overture had not yet been completed; it was premiered at the play’s fourth performance, on June 15th of the same year.
	www.ffaire.com /pr/laphil/jytnov30x.html (1387 words)

	News & Notes Archive
		Specific allusions in the two later plays suggest that Goethe and his Egmont are part of the idealistic tradition that both Kleist and Büchner take up to ponder and question.
		In a melancholy and traumatic play on the discourse of the autonomous subject, Sebald plays the plot of Wilhelm Meister backwards, and calls into question the reductive tradition that would interpret Goethe’s novel in terms of an ahistorical ideal of aesthetic education.
		My paper examines how the modern texts play on this autoparodic hypotext and to what extent they are thereby doubly parodic, engaging with Wilhelm Meister’s internal tensions to examine the pervasive ideologies of aesthetic subjectivity, ahistorical ideals of education, and of the pedagogical function of the hypotext.
	www.goethesociety.org /archive/borchert003.html (1307 words)

	Goethe, J. W. von. 1909–14. Egmont. Vol. 19, Part 3. The Harvard Classics
		Who never ate his bread in sorrow, / Who never spent the darksome hours / Weeping, and watching for the morrow,— / He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
		Perhaps best known from Beethoven’s overture, Goethe’s Egmont represents a classic work of Sturm und Drang literature.
		Count Egmont leads an ultimately tragic rebellion against Spanish rule in The Netherlands.
	www.bartleby.com /19/3 (111 words)

	Untitled Document
		In fact, while the overture to Egmont is today frequently performed in the concert hall, the rest of the score failed to gain an independent concert life because of its dependence on the text of the play.
		Patrick Campbell (who played the London Mélisande) commissioned Fauré to write the incidental music, and it was she who decided where the music would be placed in the production.
		Fauré, perpetually over committed with professional duties, was unable to write and orchestrate the music in the space of the six weeks allotted, so he enlisted the help of a student, Charles Koechlin, to help with the orchestration.
	www.andrews.edu /~mack/pnotes/oct1605.htm (1140 words)

	Egmont Village Accommodation Taranaki New Zealand - Egmont Village Accomodation NZ.
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		Egmont Village acomodation options close to popular NZ tourism and adventure areas.
	www.bluecastle.co.nz /Taranaki-Egmont_Village.htm (172 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Period Beethoven Program Charms All
		Beethoven's Egmont Overture--massive sound, intensely impassioned playing, all of the raging emotion of the Romantic era packed into a nine-minute punch that should simply overwhelm you with its sheer volume of sound and feeling.
		Modern audiences are so used to hearing this piece by itself, that we forget it was meant to summarize the important themes of a play and to warm up the audience.
		There was never the sense that the orchestra had to consciously play more quietly to preserve the primacy of the choir.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=217046 (939 words)

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