Proms Extra: Beethoven and German Romantic Poetry
Anne McElvoy discusses the German Romantic poetry which inspired Beethoven.
Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4
July 24, 201521m 14s
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Show Notes
Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain explore the great German Romantic poetry which inspired Beethoven throughout his life from Schiller's Ode to Joy to Goethe's Egmont and Treitschke's Fidelio.
Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music