{"id":73712,"date":"2021-05-03T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=73712"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:20:58","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beethoven: Sparks of Joy – Lessons from history: act for your nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleonore Prochaska was the daughter of a Prussian soldier, raised in a military orphanage after the death of her mother. She was one of many German women who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, though most were ejected from the army when it was found out that they were women. In 1813, Prochaska disguised herself and joined the the L\u00fctzow Free Corps under the name August Renz, serving first as a drummer, then in the infantry. She was severely wounded in battle and died three weeks later. In death, she was memorialized as a chaste heroine and \u201cPotsdam\u2019s Joan of Arc\u201d. A momument to her memory, „Der Heldenjungfrau zum Ged\u00e4chtnis“, or „In memory of the maiden-heroine“ survives to this day in Potsdam\u2019s Old Cemetery.
In 1814, Johann Friedrich Duncker accompanied the King of Prussia to the Congress of Vienna, and asked Beethoven to compose incidental music for his play, \u201cLeonora Prohaska\u201d. The play was never performed, as the subject had already been treated in Piwald\u2019s \u201cDas Madchen von Potsdam\u201d which was performed that year.
Beethoven\u2019s music has four parts:
1) Chorus, \u201cWir bauen und sterben\u2019 (We build and die);
2) Romanze (Es bl\u00fcht eine Blume im Garten mein) (A Flower blooms in my garden);
3) Melodrama;
4) Trauermarsch (Funeral March);
The fourth number is an arrangement for full orchestra of the funeral march from the Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26, transposed from A flat minor to B minor.
This rarely-heard work is performed here by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Claudio Abbado. [Notes by Margaret Scialdone.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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