{"id":68883,"date":"2021-02-18T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=68883"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:15:09","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Beethoven&#8217;s \u00abShakespeare\u00bb sonata, \u00abI scorn to change my state with kings;\u00bb the great Appassionata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opus 57 &#8211; the \u00abAppassionata\u00bb &#8211; one of the greatest works of Beethoven&#8217;s so-called \u00abheroic\u00bb period, provides the backdrop for the following account:\u00a0<br>In the late autumn of 1806, as Beethoven was putting the finishing touches to this sonata, his patron Prince Lichnowski ordered him to perform for officers of the occupying French Army. Beethoven refused, departed in the middle of a furious storm, and later wrote to Lichnowski, \u201cPrince! What you are, you are by circumstance and birth. What I am, I am through myself. Of princes there have and will be thousands. Of Beethovens there is only one!\u201d The manuscript for the Appassionata bears the stains from that rainstorm.<br>This performance by Murray Perahia is the best I&#8217;ve heard. [Notes by Margaret Scialdone.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murray Perahia - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACB2a7dOHmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven&#8217;s \u00abShakespeare\u00bb sonata, \u00abI scorn to change my state with kings;\u00bb the great Appassionata. Opus 57 &#8211; the \u00abAppassionata\u00bb &#8211; one of the greatest works of Beethoven&#8217;s so-called \u00abheroic\u00bb period, provides the backdrop for the following account:\u00a0In the late autumn of 1806, as Beethoven was putting the finishing touches to this sonata, his patron Prince [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,509],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-68883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-updates-music","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68884,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68883\/revisions\/68884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}