{"id":73861,"date":"2021-05-07T06:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=73861"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:49:35","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Beethoven: Spark of Joy &#8211; HIs Mass in C, God&#8217;s Grace Comes to Those Who Act for Posterity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prince Nikolaus Esterh\u00e1zy II, the long-time patron of Franz Josef Haydn, commissioned a new mass setting each year for his wife\u2019s name-day. In 1807, the commission fell to Beethoven, who, in his own words, \u201ctreated the text in a manner in which it has rarely been treated\u201d. The great masses of Bach and Mozart are structured somewhat like operas, whereas Beethoven\u2019s mass is powerfully symphonic, with the soloists treated as a unified quartet, inextricably interwoven with the choir. Esterhazy was not pleased, but the next performance, at Prince Lichnowsky\u2019s residence, received a more positive response. After its publication in 1813, one commentator wrote that the mass conveyed \u201ca childlike optimism that in its very purity devoutly trusts in God\u2019s grace, and appeals to him as a father who desires the best for his children and hears their prayers\u201d.<br>On November 18, 2018, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus performed Beethoven\u2019s Mass in C at the beautiful St. Bartholomew\u2019s Church in New York City. [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 Mass in C Major, Op. 86 \u2014 NYC Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1B27voNUBw?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven: Spark of Joy &#8211; HIs Mass in C, God&#8217;s Grace Comes to Those Who Act for Posterity Prince Nikolaus Esterh\u00e1zy II, the long-time patron of Franz Josef Haydn, commissioned a new mass setting each year for his wife\u2019s name-day. In 1807, the commission fell to Beethoven, who, in his own words, \u201ctreated the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,625,505,509],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-73861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-culture","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\/73861","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=73861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73863,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions\/73863"}],"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=73861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}