{"id":4920,"date":"2016-05-16T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2016-05-16T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:51:42","slug":"beethoven-and-the-candlesitcks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven and the candlesitcks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beethoven once gave a performance of a new piano concerto in which he forgot he was the soloist and began to conduct instead.\u00a0 At the first sforzando he threw out his arms so vehemently that he knocked both candlesticks off the piano.\u00a0 The audience burst out laughing, which enraged Beethoven.\u00a0 He made the orchestra start all over again.\u00a0 To avoid a repetition of the accident, two boys from the chorus were recruited to stand holding the lights on either side of Beethoven.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when it came to the sforzando, Beethoven again flung out his arms.\u00a0 One of the boys, keeping a wary eye on the maestro, had seen what was\u00a0 coming and managed to duck.\u00a0 The other boy was not so lucky, and received Beethoven’s hand full in the mouth, which made him stagger and drop the candlestick.\u00a0 The audiences laughter now so enraged Beethoven that he hit the keyboard with his fist and broke half a dozen piano strings!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Cited in Kelly, Henry & Foley John (1998) Classic FM Musical Anecdotes<\/em>.\u00a0 London: Hodder & Stoughton, p.200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beethoven once gave a performance of a new piano concerto in which he forgot he was the soloist and began to conduct instead.\u00a0 At the first sforzando he threw out his arms so vehemently that he knocked both candlesticks off the piano.\u00a0 The audience burst out laughing, which enraged Beethoven.\u00a0 He made the orchestra start […]<\/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":[560,953],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-beethoven","tag-personality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}