{"id":4835,"date":"2016-05-03T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:21:54","slug":"to-be-a-good-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4835","title":{"rendered":"To be a good player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bach was once complemented on his organ playing:<br \/>\n&#8220;There is nothing remarkable about it.\u00a0 All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quoted by Johann Friedrich K\u00f6hler, Leipzig, after 1776.\u00a0 Hans-Joachim Schulze, ed. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">1750-1800. <\/span>Bach-Dokumente, III. 1972, no. 848.<\/p>\n<p>Cited in: Wolf, Christoph (1998) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters in Documents.\u00a0 <\/span>New York: Norton, p.412.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bach was once complemented on his organ playing: &#8220;There is nothing remarkable about it.\u00a0 All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself.&#8221; Quoted by Johann Friedrich K\u00f6hler, Leipzig, after 1776.\u00a0 Hans-Joachim Schulze, ed. Dokumente zum Nachwirken Johann Sebastian Bachs, 1750-1800. Bach-Dokumente, III. 1972, no. [&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":[54,1251],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-j-s-bach","tag-organ-playing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","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=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}