The Beethoven Files Podcast

Ep. 48 Beethoven’s Incidental Music for Egmont, Op. 84

The Beethoven Files Podcast

Show Notes

We’ll focus on the overture and a varied selection of movements from Beethoven’s incidental music for Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84, completed in 1810.

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