Overture: Egmont

Here is the Wyton House Compton in symphonic mood. Egmont is one of Beethoven's two great tragic overtures. Beethoven wrote this overture and nine pieces of incidental music to accompany Goethe's tragic play of the same name. Goethe declared that Beethoven had expressed his intentions with "a remarkable genius".

Beethoven's name does not appear in the Contrebombarde standard list of composers; only one piece by him for organ survives, which he wrote at the age of 12.