Turku Po/Segerstam - Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont (Incidental Music), Tarpeja, Leonore Prohaska

Beethoven was involved with the theatre in one way or another from boyhood, and the commission to compose incidental music for Goethe�s play Egmont at the Royal Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna was the first of many such collaborations. Beethoven�s score conveys the essence of this tragedy and reveals his clear affinity with its theme of heroic sacrifice by a man condemned to death for taking a valiant stand against oppression.