Max Derrickson

King Stephen Overture, Op. 117   A great new Theater was underway in Pest,Hungaryin 1811 under the sanction of Imperial Austria, and it was proclaimed that a great drama about a Hungarian historical figure would premiere with the hall to be preceded and ended with music.  The drama was commissioned of poet Auguste von Kotzebue, […]

Ludwig van Beethoven   (born, 1770, Bonn, Germany; died 1827 Vienna, Austria) Egmont Overture, Op. 84 Beethoven’s Egmont Overture correlates to a story, and one, no less, by the great German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  In 1787 Goethe penned a magnificent play about the Dutch hero Count Egmont.  Egmont was a popular military leader and […]