{"id":6476,"date":"2021-09-13T20:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2021-09-13T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:42:43","slug":"mozart-the-myth-versus-t-he-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6476","title":{"rendered":"Mozart: the myth versus the man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We often focus too much on the myth of Mozart, the myth of the prodigy and the myth of the genius \u2013 but as he writes in some of his letters, he often feels totally misunderstood and that people don\u2019t give him credit for all the tireless work which he does. In one letter he says something like \u2018Anyone who worked as hard as me would achieve the same results\u2019: that\u2019s not true, of course, because he also had the divine talent, but it says a lot.<br><br>\u2014 V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson<\/p><cite>Katherine Cooper, &#8220;V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson on Mozart and his Contemporaries&#8221;,<em>  Presto Music<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prestomusic.com\/classical\/articles\/4209--interview-vikingur-olafsson-on-mozart-and-his-contemporaries?utm_source=News-2021-09-10&amp;utm_medium=email,\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.prestomusic.com\/classical\/articles\/4209--interview-vikingur-olafsson-on-mozart-and-his-contemporaries?utm_source=News-2021-09-10&amp;utm_medium=email, (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.prestomusic.com\/classical\/articles\/4209&#8211;interview-vikingur-olafsson-on-mozart-and-his-contemporaries<\/a> accessed 13 September 2021.   <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often focus too much on the myth of Mozart, the myth of the prodigy and the myth of the genius \u2013 but as he writes in some of his letters, he often feels totally misunderstood and that people don\u2019t give him credit for all the tireless work which he does. In one letter he [&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":[553],"tags":[572,1571],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-ethic","tag-mozart","tag-vikingur-olafsson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","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=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}