{"id":63792,"date":"2020-11-03T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=63792"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:26:22","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8211; No.2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part 1: The Eroica Symphony   <br>Notes by Fred Haight<\/strong>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beethoven \/ Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 &quot;Eroica&quot;: 1st mvt (Furtw\u00e4ngler)\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K56RTB09DX0?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>   Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 &#8222;Eroica&#8220;: 1st mvt (Furtw\u00e4ngler)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beethoven lived in a time of great hope and optimism. The world was changing, and the future looked bright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poet Friedrich Schiller, expressed this in \u201c<em>The Artists<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8222;<em>How beautifully, O man, with your branch of palm,<\/em> <br><em>You stand on the century&#8217;s slope<\/em> <br><em>In proud and noble manliness,<\/em> <br><em>With open mind, with spirits high,<\/em> <br><em>Stern yet gentle, in active stillness,<\/em> <br><em>The ripest son of time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schiller further said to his fellow artists that they must be leaders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe dignity of Man into your hands is given,<\/em><br><em>Its proctector be!<\/em><br><em>It sinks with you! With you it will be risen!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that Beethoven heeded Schiller\u2019s words. In his admiration for the success of the American Revolution and the ideals of the French Revolution, Beethoven dedicated his 3rd symphony, &#8222;<em>The Eroica<\/em>&#8220; (Heroic), to Napoleon Bonaparte, at a time when it seemed he might actually liberate mankind. When Napoleon crowned himself Emperor in 1804, Beethoven ripped out the title and said &#8220; Now, he too will trample on the rights of mankind.&#8220; He rededicated it to &#8222;The memory of a Great Man.&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can hear that heroic and inspiring quality in the first movement: The crisis-ridden middle (development section) of the movement, was the longest ever written up to that point. In this recording, it lasts a full 6 minutes from 3:12 to 9:12. The <em>Coda<\/em>, or ending, is also magnificent. If the main theme, reminds us of a hero on horseback, the last minute and a half sounds more like Pegasus, the horse with wings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1: The Eroica Symphony Notes by Fred Haight Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 &#8222;Eroica&#8220;: 1st mvt (Furtw\u00e4ngler) Beethoven lived in a time of great hope and optimism. The world was changing, and the future looked bright. The poet Friedrich Schiller, expressed this in \u201cThe Artists\u201d: &#8222;How beautifully, O man, with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,1],"tags":[624,617,618],"class_list":["post-63792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","tag-beetnoven","tag-culture","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63841,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63792\/revisions\/63841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}