Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827

Titles on this disk:

• author: Beethoven’ s Opera Fidelio. German Text, with an English Translation

Quotation:

• (6 July, 2009) Beethoven’s hero Florestan in the opera Fidelio laments the loss of his liberty for speaking the truth to power (1805)

About this person:

Beethoven was one of the great European classical composers of the first half of the 19th century. He wrote a number of politically inspired works including an opera Fidelio which had as one of its themes the issue of individual liberty.