The play ends on the hero's last call to fight for independence. Thus, faced with her failure and despair, Klärchen puts an end to her life. Imprisoned and abandoned because of the cowardliness of his people, despite the desperate efforts of his mistress Klärchen, he is sentenced to death. Though under threat of arrest, Egmont refuses to run away and give up his ideal of liberty. Egmont is a famous Flemish warrior, and the duc of Albe represents the Spanish invader. In his drama Egmont, Goethe (1787) relates the fight of Count Egmont (1522-1568) against the despotic Duke of Albe.
Overture to Egmont, opus 84, of Beethoven
On the Grand-Place, before being transferredīoth were decapitated in 1568 by the Duke ofĪlba, because of their resistance to Spanish This bronze statue, made by Charles August Counts Egmont and Hornes are the honour of
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