{"id":12344,"date":"2023-12-24T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2023-12-24T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T03:44:23","slug":"on-artur-schnables-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12344","title":{"rendered":"On Artur Schnable&#8217;s playing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Artur Schnabel is a pianist unlike any other.  One is conscious in listening to him of a powerful and original mind revealing unsuspected meanings and complications in music as familiar as Brahms&#8217;s Intermezzi and Beethoven&#8217;s &#8216;Waldstein&#8217; Sonata.  His tone is a rule dry in anything above a <em>piano<\/em>, but a sudden touch of the pedal will sometimes irradiate it, while in his pianissimo, he has endless variety.  He played to a full house at Grotrian Hall for the Pianoforte Society on November 26, and appeared less like a pianist playing music than like a scientist who discourses a fascinating subject.   <\/p>\n<cite><em>The Musical Times<\/em>, January 1928.<br>Cited in Scholes, Percy (1947) <em>The Mirror of Music.<\/em> London: Novello and Company, vol. 1, p.320.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artur Schnabel is a pianist unlike any other. One is conscious in listening to him of a powerful and original mind revealing unsuspected meanings and complications in music as familiar as Brahms&#8217;s Intermezzi and Beethoven&#8217;s &#8216;Waldstein&#8217; Sonata. His tone is a rule dry in anything above a piano, but a sudden touch of the pedal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1429],"class_list":["post-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-artur-schnabel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}