{"id":71761,"date":"2021-04-07T08:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=71761"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:49:38","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/04\/07\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beethoven:  Sparks of Joy &#8212; Fourth Piano Concerto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beethoven&#8217;s fourth piano concerto is unique in that it opens not with a grandiose orchestral introduction, but with a serene statement of the ideas by the piano soloist. Following its public premiere in December 1808 &#8211; part of a marathon concert which also featured the 5th and 6th Symphonies, the Choral Fantasy, and three movements from the Mass in C &#8211; the concerto languished until 1836, when it was revived by Felix Mendelssohn.<br>On November 3, 1838, Robert Schumann wrote, \u201cToday Mendelssohn played the G\u2011Major Concerto of Beethoven with a power and polish that it transported us all. I took a pleasure in it such as I have never before enjoyed, and I sat in my seat without moving a muscle or even breathing.\u201d<br>Today&#8217;s performance is by Mitsuko Uchida, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"L. V. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 - Mitsuko Uchida\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcskDJ-M9Rs?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; Fourth Piano Concerto Beethoven&#8217;s fourth piano concerto is unique in that it opens not with a grandiose orchestral introduction, but with a serene statement of the ideas by the piano soloist. Following its public premiere in December 1808 &#8211; part of a marathon concert which also featured the 5th and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,1,505,509],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-71761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","category-updates","category-updates-music","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71761","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=71761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71762,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71761\/revisions\/71762"}],"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=71761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}