{"id":4623,"date":"2016-04-12T18:29:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:29:58","slug":"i-write-for-all-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4623","title":{"rendered":"I write for all ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mozart was writing his opera <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Idomeno<\/span>, his father warned him to make sure it was accessible to all the audience. Mozart replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As far as the so-called Popular style is concerned, don&#8217;t worry about it; in my Opera you&#8217;ll find Musick for every kind of listener = except for those with the long ears [i.e., asses].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an letter to his father,Munich 16 December 1780.\u00a0 Cited in:Spaethling, Robert (2000) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mozart&#8217;s Letters, Mozart&#8217;s Life<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Faber and Faber,\u00a0 p.221.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mozart was writing his opera Idomeno, his father warned him to make sure it was accessible to all the audience. Mozart replied: As far as the so-called Popular style is concerned, don&#8217;t worry about it; in my Opera you&#8217;ll find Musick for every kind of listener = except for those with the long ears [&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":[68],"tags":[737,893,1132,950,572],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style","tag-accessibility","tag-aesthetics","tag-classicism","tag-eighteenth-century","tag-mozart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}