{"id":69027,"date":"2021-02-19T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=69027"},"modified":"2021-02-19T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:57:26","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Beethoven&#8217;s &#8222;Cuckoo&#8220; sonatina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One might suspect that the Opus 79 sonatina was actually composed much earlier than its publication date of 1809, but Beethoven&#8217;s sketchbooks show that it is a contemporary of such works as the Emperor Concerto and the Harp Quartet. This miniature sonata is also known as the &#8222;Cuckoo&#8220; for the repeated chirping motive in the first movement, which is followed by a plaintive barcarolle and a lively finale. It&#8217;s beautifully interpreted here by the Polish pianist Marta Czech.  [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=\"Beethoven - Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79 ; Marta Czech\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXVEGFYJtwQ?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 &#8222;Cuckoo&#8220; sonatina. One might suspect that the Opus 79 sonatina was actually composed much earlier than its publication date of 1809, but Beethoven&#8217;s sketchbooks show that it is a contemporary of such works as the Emperor Concerto and the Harp Quartet. This miniature sonata is also known as the &#8222;Cuckoo&#8220; for the repeated chirping [&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-69027","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:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69029,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69027\/revisions\/69029"}],"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=69027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}