Egmont Overture - Ludwig van Beethoven

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. 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. Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810.

The subject of the music and dramatic narrative is the life and heroism of 16th-century nobleman Lamoral, Count of Egmont from the Netherlands. In the music for Egmont, Beethoven expressed his own political concerns through the exaltation of the heroic sacrifice of a man condemned to death for having taken a valiant stand against oppression.

Since the execution of the Count of Egmont was a precursor to the start of the Eighty Years' War, I thought a painting depicting a scene from that war would be a good match.

The name of the painting is: Battle of Gibraltar in 1607, by Dutch painter, Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, circa 1620

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