Channel: Classical Music11

Category: Music

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Description: Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic Eleonore Prochaska (11 March 1785, Potsdam - 5 October 1813, Dannenberg) was a German woman soldier who fought in the Prussian army against Napoleon during the War of the Sixth Coalition. In retrospect, she was strongly idealized as a chaste heroine and honoured as "Potsdam's Joan of Arc" ("die Potsdamer Jeanne d'Arc"). Various plays and poems were written on her life (including those by Friedrich Rückert and Emil Taubert), whilst Ludwig van Beethoven began a "Bühnenmusik" (WoO 96) on her, with a libretto entitled "Eleonore Prochaska" written by the Prussian royal private-secretary Friedrich Duncker. 0:00 I: Kriegerchor 'Wir bauen und sterben' 1:20 II: Romanze 'Es blüht eine Blume im Garten mein' 3:55 III: Meolodram 'Du, dem sie gewunden' 5:40 IV: Trauermarsch