{"id":4745,"date":"2016-04-19T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2016-04-19T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:12:02","slug":"just-as-we-checked-the-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4745","title":{"rendered":"Just as we checked the tuning &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1853, Brahms went on a tour of German cities with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Rem\u00e9nyi.\u00a0 In the town of Celle, they were scheduled to play Beethoven&#8217;s Sonata in c minor (op. 30, no. 2):<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<p>but it was found that the piano in the hall was tuned a half tone too low.\u00a0 Rem\u00e9nyi refused to tune his violin down, so, rather than to disappoint the audience, Brahms obliged by transposing his part up a half tone.\u00a0 He played the entire sonata from memory in the key of C sharp minor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leonard, Richard (1961) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Stream of Music<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Hutchinson, p. 256.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1853, Brahms went on a tour of German cities with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Rem\u00e9nyi.\u00a0 In the town of Celle, they were scheduled to play Beethoven&#8217;s Sonata in c minor (op. 30, no. 2): but it was found that the piano in the hall was tuned a half tone too low.\u00a0 Rem\u00e9nyi refused to [&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":[40],"tags":[560,606,1194,1193,1192,1191],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-beethoven","tag-brahms","tag-eduard-remenyi","tag-no-2","tag-sonata-in-c-minor-op-30","tag-tuning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","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=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}