Egmont - BMP0308184 | Music

Inhalt:
The Wedding
Filips & Egmont
Fato Prudentia Minor
United against Spain

"Many writers and composers past and present have used the tragic story of Egmont for their own personal work; Beethoven's Egmont Overture is probably the most famous example of this. When the music association Lamoraal van Egmont commissioned me to compose a piece which focuses on this character, I was extremely interested in exploring the depth and inspirational power of this timeless story and to express it in a musical form. Four elements or episodes of the story constitute the dramatic cornerstones of the composition. Egmont's wedding (part 1), Egmont's precarious relationship with Philip II (part 2), his beheading in Brussels (part 3) and the rising of the Low Countries against the Spanish suppressors which was the result of his execution (part 4).