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"Wellington's Victory" by Beethoven
By Jim Canavan

Jerry Hall wrote in yesterdays MMD:

> A number of years ago, I had an LP ... of an orchestral version of
> a composition supposedly written first for a mechanical musical
> device/machine.  The musical theme was the "Battle of Waterloo".

Could the piece in question be Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory,"
which I have read was written for some sort of mechanical band organ
device.

It does contain the sounds of both French and British "armies," with
the anthems and sounds of battle "fighting" each other...

Jim Canavan
cybrflash@aol.com


(Message sent Sat 15 Aug 1998, 15:12:22 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

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