{"id":64452,"date":"2020-11-17T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=64452"},"modified":"2020-11-18T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:46:30","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy – No. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Goethe and Beethoven: „Getting Along with Girls“
Notes by Fred Haight<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Classics are often associated with imagery of stuffy-old-white-male who have nothing relatable for the contemporary youth generation. We beg to differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goethe’s Mit M\u00e4deln sich Vertragen (Getting Along with Girls), written in 1787, is a poem that makes hilarious fun of the „machismo“ mentality of any young, over-confident, would be Don Juan. Beethoven captures Goethe’s imagery perfectly (including a mock sword fight), in this short work for Bass and Orchestra, WoO 90 (composed around 1790-92).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lnboxr-Vngw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3ENAarSvcdSR9C85ospuWtF36CMIa5wAnjYzxTbxOCdN28AlQNgkRnMVo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mit M\u00e4deln sich Vertragen:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mit M\u00e4deln sich vertragen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mit M\u00e4nnern ‚rumgeschlagen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Und mehr Credit als Geld;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So kommt man durch die Welt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ein Lied, am Abend warm gesungen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hat mir schon manches Herz errungen;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Und steht der Neider an der Wand,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hervor den Degen in der Hand;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‚Raus, feurig, frisch,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Den Flederwisch!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kling! Kling! Klang! Klang!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dik! Dik! Dak! Dak!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krik! Krak!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mit M\u00e4deln sich vertragen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mit M\u00e4nnern ‚rumgeschlagen,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Und mehr Credit als Geld;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So kommt man durch die Welt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With girls I get along,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With men I brawl,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With more credit than money;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This how one goes through the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A song, sung on a warm evening,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has already won many a heart for me;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I back the jealous one against the wall, His sword in his hand; Out, fiery, fresh, The feather duster!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clink! Clink! Clang! Clang!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick! Dick! Dack! Dack!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crick! Crack!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With girls I get along,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With men I brawl,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With more credit than money;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how one goes through the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goethe and Beethoven: „Getting Along with Girls“ Notes by Fred Haight The Classics are often associated with imagery of stuffy-old-white-male who have nothing relatable for the contemporary youth generation. We beg to differ. Goethe’s Mit M\u00e4deln sich Vertragen (Getting Along with Girls), written in 1787, is a poem that makes hilarious fun of the „machismo“ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,625,1,505,509],"tags":[616,618],"class_list":["post-64452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-culture","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-updates-music","tag-beethoven","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64452","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=64452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64455,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64452\/revisions\/64455"}],"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=64452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}