{"id":4761,"date":"2016-04-19T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2016-04-19T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:30:32","slug":"first-class-regardless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"First class regardless"},"content":{"rendered":"

The composer Karol Szymanowski was born into a landowning class family.\u00a0 Even, later in life, when short for money, he always retained the mindset of this class:<\/p>\n

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At one time in Vienna, Szymanowski discovered that he did not have enough money to travel to Cracow, so some friends of him lent him the required sum. A few moments later they could not find the Polish composer on the same train … Szymanowski traveled first class .. his friends – third!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cited in Maciejewski, B. M. (1967) Karol Szymanowski: His Life and Music<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Poets’ and Painters’ Press, p.36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The composer Karol Szymanowski was born into a landowning class family.\u00a0 Even, later in life, when short for money, he always retained the mindset of this class: At one time in Vienna, Szymanowski discovered that he did not have enough money to travel to Cracow, so some friends of him lent him the required sum. […]<\/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":[551],"tags":[1136],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians","tag-karol-szymanowski"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","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=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}