{"id":5475,"date":"2018-10-05T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:55:30","slug":"tchaikovsky-on-don-giovanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"Tchaikovsky on Don Giovanni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTchaikovsky, later in his life, reflected on hearing Mozart&#39;s <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">Don Giovanni <\/span>as a boy:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tThe music of <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">Don Giovanni<\/span> was the first to conquer me completely.&nbsp; It awoke an ecstasy in me of which the consequences are known.&nbsp; It gave me the key to the spheres of pure beauty in which the greatest geniuses soar.&nbsp; Up to then I had known only Italian opera.&nbsp; That I vowed myself to music is due to <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">Don Giovanni<\/span> &#8230; In this opera Mozart has put on stage an objectively tragic character, the most powerful and the most hallucinatory music ever created &#8211; Donna Anna. I simply cannot express what I felt when I saw this proud beauty appear, tragic and vengeful.&nbsp; When she at last discovers Don Juan, the murderer of her father and her seducer, when her anger flares out in a recitative of genius followed by the slightest whisper of the orchestra, I shiver with horror, I want to cry aloud, to weep, to throw myself about, overcome by the strength of the impression given by the Master.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\tCited in: Hanson, Lawrence &amp; Elisabeth (1965) <i>Tchaikovsky<\/i>, London: Cassell &amp; Company, p.30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tchaikovsky, later in his life, reflected on hearing Mozart&#39;s Don Giovanni as a boy: The music of Don Giovanni was the first to conquer me completely.&nbsp; It awoke an ecstasy in me of which the consequences are known.&nbsp; It gave me the key to the spheres of pure beauty in which the greatest geniuses soar.&nbsp; [&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":[584],"tags":[1452,572,408],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-don-giovanni","tag-mozart","tag-tchaikovsky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}