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Übersetzung: Dr. Simone Kremkau / Christoph Bisel

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Herstellung und Verlag: BoD – Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt

ISBN: 9783754365267

Preface

Following the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809, Napoleon took command of his forces across the Danube valley. With Austria the main combatant in league with the British against the French and the Bavarians a bloody conflict was enacted which would result in Austrian defeat and the loss of substantial territory to the French and her allies. So when Napoleon’s troops marched on Hamburg in 1810, Kuhlau fled from conscription and took up residence in Copenhagen. His parents would join him four years later, and although he would give many concert performances in Scandinavia, Germany and Austria, Denmark became his adopted home. Such that today, he is regarded principally as a ‘Danish composer of German birth’1 having formally acquired Danish citizenship in 1813.