{"id":64708,"date":"2020-11-25T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T04:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=64708"},"modified":"2020-11-25T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T04:19:16","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/11\/25\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-no-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8211; No. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beethoven&#8217;s Final Sonata Opus 111   <br>Notes by Margaret Scialdone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing his 32nd and final piano sonata, Beethoven is said to have made the astonishing remark that the piano is &#8222;after all, an unsatisfactory instrument&#8220;. This work does indeed strain the limits of both piano and performer, the latter spiritually as well as technically. The second movement, innocuously called &#8222;Arietta&#8220; (little song), reaches almost other-worldly dimensions of emotional profundity. Although he went on to compose other works for the piano (the Diabelli Variations and Opus 119 Bagatelles), he never contemplated writing another sonata.<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YKwNlP0s4WY&#038;feature=youtu.be\n<\/div><figcaption>Andr\u00e1s Schiff Plays Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 C minor Op 111 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven&#8217;s Final Sonata Opus 111 Notes by Margaret Scialdone After completing his 32nd and final piano sonata, Beethoven is said to have made the astonishing remark that the piano is &#8222;after all, an unsatisfactory instrument&#8220;. This work does indeed strain the limits of both piano and performer, the latter spiritually as well as technically. The [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[616,617,618],"class_list":["post-64708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-culture","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","tag-beethoven","tag-culture","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64708","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=64708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64710,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64708\/revisions\/64710"}],"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=64708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}