Definitions for "Egmont"
Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1787, with an overture and incidental music by Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1809.
Egmont, opus 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music for the 1787 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the same name. It consists of an overture and nine separate subsequent pieces for soprano and full orchestra. Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810.
Egmont is one of the leading groups of Scandinavia. Founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, the company's headquarters is still based in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the Second World War Egmont acquired a license from Disney, and in 1948 the company started to publish a Donald Duck comic magazine in Sweden.
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.