{"id":5650,"date":"2019-12-30T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T00:35:22","slug":"composing-in-the-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5650","title":{"rendered":"Composing in the bath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gustav Mahler recalled:<br> After an illness, Bruckner was ordered by his doctor to take a daily hip-bath. &nbsp;Loath to waste time, he would take music paper and compose while in the tub. &nbsp;While absorbed in his work one day, the mother of Rudolf Kryzanowski, one of his pupils, knocked at the door. &nbsp;&#8220;Come in!&#8221; called Bruckner. &nbsp;Imagine her consternation on entering the apartment to see Bruckner&#8217;s portly person in the bathtub naked as the good Lord had fashioned him. &nbsp;As she stood there transfixed, Bruckner politely got up and walked over, dripping, to greet her. &nbsp;Only her shriek and hasty exit made the poor man aware of his condition. &nbsp;And this had to happen to Bruckner, who blushed like a schoolboy if he so much as looked at a woman.<br> <br> Gustav Mahler, in Natalie Bauer-Lechner: <em>Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler<\/em>. &nbsp;Leipzig, 1923. &nbsp;Cited in: Lebrecht, Norman (1985) The Book of Musical Anecdotes. New York: The Free Press, p.185. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav Mahler recalled: After an illness, Bruckner was ordered by his doctor to take a daily hip-bath. &nbsp;Loath to waste time, he would take music paper and compose while in the tub. &nbsp;While absorbed in his work one day, the mother of Rudolf Kryzanowski, one of his pupils, knocked at the door. &nbsp;&#8220;Come in!&#8221; called [&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":[551],"tags":[1060],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities-of-the-musicians","tag-anton-bruckner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","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=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}