{"id":69554,"date":"2021-03-01T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=69554"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:18:35","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/03\/01\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8212; the master&#8217;s climactic Op. 111 finishes his use of the sonata form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Beethoven would go on to compose other works for solo piano, the Opus 111 is Beethoven&#8217;s climactic finish to the sonata form. With the first movement, he reduces the C minor key to its bare elements (think of the Path\u00e9tique) and produces a work of incredible power and passion. The second movement, innocuously called &#8222;Arietta,&#8220; takes the form of variations on a simple theme in C major, but these variations transcend anything that has ever been done on the piano.<br>Here is an thoughtful performance by Mitsuko Uchida. [Notes by Margaret Scialdone.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beethoven: Sonata Op.111 No.32 in C Minor (Uchida)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGg9cE-ceso?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: Sparks of Joy &#8212; the master&#8217;s climactic Op. 111 finishes his use of the sonata form. Although Beethoven would go on to compose other works for solo piano, the Opus 111 is Beethoven&#8217;s climactic finish to the sonata form. With the first movement, he reduces the C minor key to its bare elements (think [&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-69554","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\/69554","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=69554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69557,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69554\/revisions\/69557"}],"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=69554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}