{"id":4991,"date":"2016-05-23T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2016-05-23T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T04:05:07","slug":"hoffman-on-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman on technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Technic\u00a0 represents the material side of art, as money represents the material side of life.\u00a0 By all means achieve a fine technic, but do no dream that you will be artistically happy with this alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is a technic which liberates and a technic which represents the artistic self.\u00a0 All technic ought to be a means of expression.\u00a0 It is perfectly possible to accumulate a technic that is next to useless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Josef Hoffmann, cited in\u00a0 Gerig, Reginald (1974) <em>Famous Pianists and their Technique<\/em>.\u00a0 Washington: Robert B. Luce Inc., p. 1-2. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technic\u00a0 represents the material side of art, as money represents the material side of life.\u00a0 By all means achieve a fine technic, but do no dream that you will be artistically happy with this alone.\u00a0 There is a technic which liberates and a technic which represents the artistic self.\u00a0 All technic ought to be a [&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":[43],"tags":[1308,685],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-josef-hoffmann","tag-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}