{"id":4165,"date":"2010-07-15T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2010-07-15T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:26:18","slug":"mieczyslaw-weinbergs-requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/mieczyslaw-weinbergs-requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"Mieczyslaw Weinberg&#039;s Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4166 lazyload\" title=\"Weinberg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Weinberg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"278\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/278;\" \/>The German weekly <strong>Die Zeit<\/strong> presents (though not available in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/index\">online edition<\/a>) a major little known (at least to me, until now) Russian composer, namely\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.music-weinberg.net\/\"><strong>Mieczyslaw Weinberg<\/strong><\/a> (1919-1996), whose work &#8211; 22 symphonies , 17 string quartets &#8211; as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perlentaucher.de\/feuilletons\/2010-07-15.html\">Perlentaucher<\/a> sums up, is in the process of being rediscovered today:\u00a0 &#8220;Not everything convinces alike. But the definitive works are superb, such as the <strong>Requiem<\/strong> which he wrote in 1966 based on poems by <strong>Federico Garcia Lorca<\/strong> among others, or the <strong>6th Symphony<\/strong> for boys&#8217; choir and orchestra completed in 1963.&#8221; Below, a youtube&#8217;d extract of the Requiem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ph9VlYc_IJU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ph9VlYc_IJU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German weekly Die Zeit presents (though not available in their online edition) a major little known (at least to me, until now) Russian composer, namely\u00a0 Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), whose work &#8211; 22 symphonies&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-mieczyslaw-weinberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}