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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven grew up in the Palatinate, subjected to the courtly uses and customs of the German states; from there he would greet the French Revolution and then the advent of Napoleon as the great reformer and liberator of feudal Europe, to end up looking disillusioned at the consolidation of the French Empire. -
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the french revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime. -
the begining of the romanticism
Romanticism originates in parallel in Germany and the United Kingdom when a group of motley people decide that they have had enough of so much rationalism and enlightenment. The world is rather the opposite… irrational. He is not serene or intellectual. Rather, it is full of feelings, of imperfections. And there is the grace. -
The first French republic
The First French Republic, officially the French Republic, was the name given to a series of parliamentary and republican regimes that followed one another between September 21, 1792 and May 18, 1804, during the French Revolution. -
Fidelio
It is an opera in two acts with music by Ludwig van Beethoven. The German libretto is the work of Joseph F. Sonnleithner, based on the original French text by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly that had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou l'amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer (Beethoven had a sheet music of this). It is the only opera that Beethoven composed. -
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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Together with Rosalía de Castro, he is the highest representative of post-romantic poetry, a trend that had as its distinctive features intimate themes and an apparent simplicity of expression, far from the vehemence of romanticism. -
the end of the romanticism
It is considered that the end of the romantic period coincides with the emergence of French realism, in the mid-19th century. When it was replaced, in the second half of the 19th century, by Realism and Naturalism. -
Don Juan tenorio
This story narrates the life of Don Juan Tenorio, a man who boasts of being a conqueror, of having all the women he desires in his arms. For this reason, he makes a bet with Don Luis Mejía: they want to see who is capable of conquering more women in a year.