{"id":4950,"date":"2016-05-18T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T03:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T03:05:42","slug":"berlioz-on-editorial-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4950","title":{"rendered":"Berlioz on editorial license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You musicians, you poets, prose-writers, actors, pianists, conductors, whether of third or second or even first rank, you do not have the right to meddle with a Shakespeare or a Beethoven, in order to bestow on them the blessings of your knowledge and taste.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Hector Berlioz, on tampering with fine creations (in this case, 1801 Paris performance of Mozart&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Magic Flute<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Cited in: Mac Donald, Heather, &#8220;Classical Music&#8217;s New Golden Age&#8221;, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">City Journal<\/span>, Summer 2010, vol 20, no. 3, accessed 21 July 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2010\/20_3_urb-classical-music.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You musicians, you poets, prose-writers, actors, pianists, conductors, whether of third or second or even first rank, you do not have the right to meddle with a Shakespeare or a Beethoven, in order to bestow on them the blessings of your knowledge and taste.\u201d &#8211; Hector Berlioz, on tampering with fine creations (in this case, [&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":[573],"tags":[1295,1294,572,782,1130],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-practice","tag-authenticity","tag-berlioz","tag-mozart","tag-performance-practice","tag-the-magic-flute"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","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=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}