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Posted by Alfred Krause on January 29, 2007, 4:02 pm "Wellington's Victory" is about the battle of Vittoria, fought in June 1813 one of the final battles of the Peninsular campaign, where the British and (loayalist) Spanish armies under Wellington defeated the French and (bonapartist) Spanish armies under Napoleon's brother Joseph and Marshal Jourdan. The "1812 Overture" is about the Battle of Borondino, fought in September 1812 more than 1000 miles away from Vittoria, between the Grand Armee of French and European allies under Napoleon and the Russian Army under General Mikhail Kutuzov. The only Prussians participating were a contingency of less than 20,000 fighting with the French. None of this reduces my continuing enjoyment and education from Mr. Barnet's reviews, and of course even Homer nods, but outside the arena of music this is a fairly large discrepancy. There are good Wikipedia articles on Vittoria, Borodino, Kutuzov and the Grande Armee.
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In regard to Rob Barnet's January 29 2007 review of Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory", Mr. Barnet makes the historically surprising claim that "Wellington's Victory" and the Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture" are about the same battle. This is not the case.
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