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Saturday, August 07, 2010

Elenore Prochaska and Beethoven

Elenore, disguised as a man, joined the volunteer Lutzow Free Corps to fight to free Prussia from Napoleon Bonaparte. She died from wounds in the battle of the Gohrde in 1813. Johann Friederich Duncker wrote a play in her honor for which Ludwig van Beethoven composed incidental music.

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