{"id":4110,"date":"2020-09-02T10:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2020-09-02T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:26:43","slug":"symphony-no-9-schubert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/symphony-no-9-schubert\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony No.9 (Schubert)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>In the last years of his life Franz Schubert composed his Ninth Symphony<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0However because of its length he was unable to finance its performance\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>He passed it to The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>But it was\u00a0considered\u00a0to long and difficult to play and was soon cast aside\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>In 1838 Robert Schuman was shown the manuscript and took a copy back to Leipzig\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>He recognised the genius of the work\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>It was performed in public for the first time by Felix Mendelssohn in 1839<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>I was dressed as a clown that day as I taught my music class<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not one of my students recognised me<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which made me very happy<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Although this was tinged with sadness<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I just wanted to be liked<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My beautiful wife loved me as did my children<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I did not love myself<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On a biographical note I am the owner of a number of sulphur mines<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And am the major employer in the area<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However this is a dangerous\u00a0occupation<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And many of my employees die young<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Their deaths haunt me and I cannot ignore my grief<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last years of his life Franz Schubert composed his Ninth Symphony \u00a0 \u00a0However because of its length he was unable to finance its performance\u00a0 \u00a0 He passed it to The Society of Friends of Music in Vienna\u00a0 \u00a0 But it was\u00a0considered\u00a0to long and difficult to play and was soon cast aside\u00a0 \u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}