{"id":63842,"date":"2020-11-04T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=63842"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:41:08","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/11\/04\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8211; No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beethoven and the Heroic ; Part 2: Leonore<\/strong>   <strong>  <\/strong><br><strong>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=\"Wilhelm Furtw\u00e4ngler: Beethoven \u2013 Leonore, \u2018Overture No. 3\u2019 Op. 72\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HNC4jdDQ0M?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\">Part 2: Leonore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No-one ever portrayed a woman more heroically then Beethoven. His only opera, Fidelio, is about a woman named Leonore, who courageously disguises herself as a boy, goes into prison, risking her life, in order to rescue her husband, Florestan, who is a political prisoner. The opera was inspired by the real-life story of Adrienne LaFayette, who went into an Austrian prison, to free her husband, The Marquis de LaFayette, a hero of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Overture condenses the highlights of the entire opera into a few minutes. Beethoven was so concerned to capture her quality correctly, that he composed three different versions of a Leonore Overture to get it right. We offer here, Leonore 3, in our opinion, the best of the three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beethoven&#8217;s enthusiasm led to a very long overture, and he ended up composing a fourth, shorter one called the Fidelio Overture. Leonore 3 is so great though, that in the early 20th century, composer\/opera conductor Gustav Mahler started using it to introduce the third act of the opera. That practice became standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven and the Heroic ; Part 2: Leonore Notes by Fred Haight Part 2: Leonore No-one ever portrayed a woman more heroically then Beethoven. His only opera, Fidelio, is about a woman named Leonore, who courageously disguises herself as a boy, goes into prison, risking her life, in order to rescue her husband, Florestan, who [&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":[616,535,617],"class_list":["post-63842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","tag-beethoven","tag-classical-music","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842","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=63842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63894,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842\/revisions\/63894"}],"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=63842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}