Classical music may seem staid to today's younger generations, but in its day, it was often revolutionary. Beethoven's famous Egmont Overture is a perfect example. Egmont celebrates the life and heroism of the Dutch nobleman, the Count of Egmont, in his fateful opposition to Spanish tyranny. Beethoven penned the overture in part to express his opposition to Napoleon’s having crowned himself Emperor in 1804 (and it later became the unofficial anthem of the Hungarian revolution of 1956). Here's Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic:
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