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Egmont or Egmond may refer to:
- Egmont Group, a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Egmond family (often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond
- Egmond (municipality), a town in North Holland, the Netherlands
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), the best known member of the Egmont family
- Egmont (play), a play by Goethe, about Lamoral, Count of Egmond
- Egmont (Beethoven), the overture and incidental music by Beethoven composed for the play
- Egmont pact, a Belgian political agreement (1977)
- Egmont Palace, in Brussels, Belgium
- Egmont Islands, a group of Indian Ocean islands, part of the Chagos Archipelago
- Egmont Publishing, a Scandinavian media group, founded in 1878
- EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations, a think tank in Brussels, Belgium
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Mount Egmont is the alternative name for Mount Taranaki in New Zealand
- Egmont National Park, a national park at Mount Taranaki
- Egmont (New Zealand electorate), a former electoral district in Taranaki, New Zealand
- Egmont Village, a village north of Mount Taranaki
- Egmont (electoral district), a Federal Canadian electoral district
- Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, and the international network of Financial Intelligence Units
- Egmont Key State Park, located in Florida, US
- Egmont, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia, Canada
- HMS Egmont, the name of two ships of the royal Navy
- Egmont H. Petersens Kollegium, a Dormitory in Copenhagen
- Lake Egmont, Nova Scotia
Egmont is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2001 was 35,208.
Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. Its dramaturgical structure, like that of his earlier ' Storm and Stress' play Götz von Berlichingen (1773), is heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy. In contrast to the earlier work, the portrait in Egmont of the downfall of a man who trusts in the goodness of those around him appears to mark a shift away from 'Storm and Stress' values.
Egmont, Op. 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It consists of an overture followed by a sequence of nine pieces for soprano, male narrator and full symphony orchestra. (The male narrator is optional; he is not used in the play and does not appear in all recordings of the complete incidental music.) Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810.
The subject of the music and dramatic narrative is the life and heroism of a 16th-century Dutch nobleman, the Count of Egmont. It was composed during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, at a time when the French Empire had extended its domination over most of Europe. Beethoven had famously expressed his great outrage over Napoleon Bonaparte's decision to crown himself Emperor in 1804, furiously scratching out his name in the dedication of the Eroica Symphony. In the music for Egmont, Beethoven expressed his own political concerns through the exaltation of the heroic sacrifice of a man condemned to death for having taken a valiant stand against oppression. The Overture later became an unofficial anthem of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Beethoven composed Klärchen’s songs, "Die Trommel gerühret" ("The drum is a-stirring") and "Freudvoll und leidvoll" ("Joyful and woeful"), with the Austrian actress Antonie Adamberger specifically in mind. She would later repeatedly and enthusiastically recall her collaboration with him.
The music was greeted with eulogistic praise, in particular by E.T.A. Hoffmann for its poetry, and Goethe himself declared that Beethoven had expressed his intentions with "a remarkable genius".
The overture, powerful and expressive, is one of the last works of his middle period; it has become as famous a composition as the Coriolan Overture, and is in a similar style to the Fifth Symphony, which he had completed two years earlier.
Egmont is a former New Zealand electorate, in south Taranaki. It existed from 1871 to 1978.
Usage examples of "egmont".
The prize was not a fast steamer, and she was over an hour in making the dozen miles to Egmont Island, on which was the tower of a lighthouse forty feet high, but no use was made of it at that time.
The man at the wheel had been the last to be secured, and Calwood was put in his place, with directions to come about and steer for Egmont Key.
As the Reindeer approached Egmont Key, the Bellevite, followed by the Bronx towing a schooner, were discovered coming out of the bay.
Reindeer was about two miles south of Egmont Key when the Bellevite came out of the bay, and the latter stopped her screw as soon as she had reached a favorable position a mile from the island.
His grace accepted the post of lord president of the council, Lord Sandwich was made secretary of state, and Lord Egmont was placed at the head of the admiralty.
The Earl of Egmont pursued the same course, and declared that the people were guilty of treason in offering such petitions as they had recently offered to his majesty.
In the next year, Commodore Byron formed a counter settlement at Port Egmont on East Falkland.
Whether the declaration or instrument for restitution of Port Egmont, to be made by the Catholic king to his majesty, under a reservation of a disputed right of sovereignty, expressed in the very declaration or instrument stipulating such restitution, can be accepted or carried into execution, without derogating from the maxim of law touching the inherent and essential dignity of the crown of Great Britain?
One party maintained that the possession of Port Egmont was of the utmost importance to England, and that by the secret article, which it was said existed in the convention, implying that after all we were to give it up, the national honour had been meanly sacrificed.
England, according to state maxims, to resent the conduct of Spain, in treacherously falling upon her colony at Port Egmont in times of peace.
When the motion was made for an address of thanks, couched in terms that savoured of the most implicit complaisance, approbation, and acquiescence in the measures which the crown had taken, the earl of Egmont, and some other anti-courtiers, affirmed, that such an address would be equally servile and absurd.
When the mutiny bill fell under deliberation, the earl of Egmont proposed a new clause for empowering and requiring regimental courts-martial to examine witnesses upon oath in all their trials.
The bill was by many considered as a dangerous extension of military power, to the prejudice of the civil rights enjoyed by British subjects, and as such violently contested by the earl of Egmont, lord Strange, and Mr.
When the news of this conquest was brought to Versailles, by the count of Egmont, whom the duke de Richelieu had dispatched for that purpose, the people of France were transported with the most extravagant joy.
One of them was Lamoral Count of Egmont, the most brilliant and popular of the high nobility.