{"id":1359,"date":"2019-02-15T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/2019\/02\/15\/kontrastvolles-konzert-im-qatar-national-convention-centre\/"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:47:41","slug":"kontrastvolles-konzert-im-qatar-national-convention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/2019\/02\/15\/kontrastvolles-konzert-im-qatar-national-convention-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting concert at the Qatar National Convention Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 3, the so-called Eroica, will resound at the Qatar National Convention Centre on Saturday 23 February, with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko. The composer&#8217;s original idea was to dedicate it to the First Consul, Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte, but as he crowned himself Emperor in the meantime, Beethoven was angry and withdraw the dedication.<!--more--> Nevertheless he treasured the symphony most highly among all of his works and called it: Sinfonia eroica, composta perfestiggiare il sovvenire di un grand uomo. Beethoven&#8217;s earlier symphonies are comparable with those by Haydn and Mozart. This one certainly not. It is the first great romantic symphony, a musical symbol of heroism!<\/p>\n<p>The two other work on the program are in total contrast: Ottorino Respighi&#8217;s The Birds (Italian: Gli uccelli), a suite for small orchestra based on music from the 17th and 18<sup>th<\/sup> century and musically representing birds, as well as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov&#8217;s brilliant Capriccio Espagnol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Symphony No. 3, the so-called Eroica, will resound at the Qatar National Convention Centre on Saturday 23 February, with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}