{"id":4817,"date":"2016-05-01T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2016-05-01T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:49:08","slug":"a-very-specific-error-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"A very specific error indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an account of the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">The newspaper critics B\u00fclow continued to despise because of their self-importance, and he lost no opportunity to expose their musical ignorance.\u00a0 On one occasion, B\u00fclow, at a public rehearsal in the Philharmonie, remarked upon a printing error in the second horn part of the Breitkopf edition of the Beethoven symphonies.\u00a0 A well-known critic, who was present, waited until the end and came forward to ask B\u00fclow to confirm the exact bar number of the mistake.\u00a0 B\u00fclow opened the score at random, pointed to the horn part and said, &#8220;There it is&#8221;.\u00a0 The critic looked briefly at the bar in question and then said, &#8220;Quite right, of course, of course&#8221;.\u00a0 B\u00fclow had correctly sensed that the knowledge of this &#8220;authority on music&#8221; did not even extend to transposing the horn parts, and dismissed him with a sarcastic smile.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\n Cited in Walker, Alan (2009) <em>Hans von B\u00fclow: A Life and Times. <\/em>USA: Oxford University Press, p. 392.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an account of the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow: The newspaper critics B\u00fclow continued to despise because of their self-importance, and he lost no opportunity to expose their musical ignorance.\u00a0 On one occasion, B\u00fclow, at a public rehearsal in the Philharmonie, remarked upon a printing error in the second horn part of the [&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":[1235,1230],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-beethoven-symphonies","tag-hans-von-bulow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}