{"id":73068,"date":"2021-04-22T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=73068"},"modified":"2021-04-22T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T13:05:02","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/04\/22\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8211; <em>Quartet No<\/em>.\u00a0<em>2<\/em>\u00a0in G major, Op. 18,\u00a0<em>No<\/em>.\u00a0<em>2<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second of Beethoven&#8217;s Opus 18 quartets has earned the nickname &#8222;Compliments Quartet&#8220; or &#8222;Quartet of Bows and Curtseys.&#8220; With <em>Haydnesque<\/em> overtones, it was first published in 1801.  Good-natured and full of surprises, it&#8217;s performed here by the world-famous Amadeus Quartet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Founded in 1947 by refugees from Hitler&#8217;s Anschluss, the Amadeus Quartet retained its original membership for the next 40 years until the death of violist Peter Schidlof. First violinist and primarius Norbert Brainin was also famously a close friend of Lyndon LaRouche, whom he considered as more knowledgeable about music than he was! An interview with Brainin is linked <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.schillerinstitute.com\/music\/brainin_interview-2005.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.schillerinstitute.com\/music\/brainin_interview-2005.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.  [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 - String quartet n\u00b02 op.18 n\u00b02 - Amadeus SQ 1961\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LUUF35C8pU?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven: Sparks of Joy &#8211; Quartet No.\u00a02\u00a0in G major, Op. 18,\u00a0No.\u00a02\u00a0 The second of Beethoven&#8217;s Opus 18 quartets has earned the nickname &#8222;Compliments Quartet&#8220; or &#8222;Quartet of Bows and Curtseys.&#8220; With Haydnesque overtones, it was first published in 1801. Good-natured and full of surprises, it&#8217;s performed here by the world-famous Amadeus Quartet. Founded in 1947 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,505,509],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-73068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-updates","category-updates-music","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068","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=73068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73072,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73068\/revisions\/73072"}],"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=73068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}