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Proms Extra: Beethoven and German Romantic Poetry

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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

Published on Friday, 24th July 2015.

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