{"id":3924,"date":"2016-03-22T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T02:34:52","slug":"the-piano-as-distinct-from-the-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"The piano, as distinct from the harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven on the development of the piano as an instrument in its own right:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is no doubt that so far as the manner of playing it is concerned, the <em>pianoforte <\/em>is still the least studied and developed of all instruments; often one thinks that one is merely listening to a harp.\u00a0 And I am delighted, my dear fellow, that you are one of the few who realize and perceive that, provided one can feel the music, one can also make the pianoforte sing.\u00a0 I hope that the time will come when the harp and pianoforte will be treated as two entirely different instruments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Beethoven, in a letter to Johann Andreas Streicher, 1796.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, Emily, ed. (1961) <em>The Letters of Beethoven<\/em>.\u00a0 3 Vol., London: St. Martin&#8217;s Press.\u00a0 Letter 18.\u00a0 Cited in: Marek, George (1969) <em>Beethoven: Biography of a Genius<\/em>.\u00a0 London: William Kimber, p.161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven on the development of the piano as an instrument in its own right: There is no doubt that so far as the manner of playing it is concerned, the pianoforte is still the least studied and developed of all instruments; often one thinks that one is merely listening to a harp.\u00a0 And I am [&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":[573],"tags":[560,637,50,638],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-practice","tag-beethoven","tag-harp","tag-piano","tag-tone-production"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}