{"id":4707,"date":"2016-04-19T04:29:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2016-04-19T04:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:31:24","slug":"hogarth-on-chopin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4707","title":{"rendered":"Hogarth on Chopin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He accomplishes enormous difficulties, but so quietly, so smoothly and with such constant delicacy and refinement that the listener is not sensible of their real magnitude.\u00a0 It is the exquisite delicacy, with the liquid mellowness of his tone, and the pearly roundness of his passages of rapid articulation which are the peculiar features of his execution, while his music is characterised by freedom of thought, varied expression and a kind of romantic melancholy which seems the natural mood of the artist&#8217;s mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Hogarth, in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daily News<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, <\/span><\/span>10 July 1848.\u00a0 Cited in: Zaluski, Iweo &amp; Pamela (1993) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Scottish Autumn of Frederick Chopin<\/span>. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, p.7.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Chopin used to refer to the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daily News<\/span> as &#8220;Delinius&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He accomplishes enormous difficulties, but so quietly, so smoothly and with such constant delicacy and refinement that the listener is not sensible of their real magnitude.\u00a0 It is the exquisite delicacy, with the liquid mellowness of his tone, and the pearly roundness of his passages of rapid articulation which are the peculiar features of his [&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":[584,43],"tags":[558,1177],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","category-performers","tag-chopin","tag-george-hogath"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707","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=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}