{"id":195,"date":"2013-01-11T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-06-29T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:19:10","slug":"the-love-of-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/don-and-delayna-beattie\/the-love-of-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Of Beethoven &#8211; Prelude to the 9th Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Love of Beethoven - Prelude to the 9th\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/virn24CYGw4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"418\"><em data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"415\">\"Like many young piano players, we first met Beethoven early in our music journey. He\u2019s one of the most famous and powerful composers ever \u2014 and wow, his music really sticks with you!\"<\/em> \ud83c\udfb6<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"669\"><em data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"664\">\"As the years went on, our connection with Beethoven grew even stronger. In fact, in 1984, Don started something really special called the Beethoven Society for Pianists \u2014 a whole group of people who love to play and study Beethoven\u2019s music!\"<\/em> \ud83c\udfb9\ud83c\udf93<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"842\"><em data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"839\">\"Beethoven\u2019s music has always inspired us to keep learning, keep teaching, and keep loving music. It\u2019s hard to even find the right words for how much he means to us.\"<\/em> \ud83d\udc96<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1103\"><em data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1097\">\"In this special video, Don shares his thoughts about a powerful moment: when he helped perform Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9 as part of a memorial concert in America after the tragedy of 9\/11. Music can bring comfort and hope during really tough times.\"<\/em> \ud83c\udfbc\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1244\"><em data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1244\">\"We hope this is just the beginning! We\u2019d love to keep sharing more stories and videos about Beethoven and other amazing music with you.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1348\">\ud83c\udfa9 <em data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1348\">\"Thanks so much for watching and listening \u2014 I\u2019ll see you next time for more musical adventures!\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beattiemusikhaus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Website and the Beethoven Society for Pianists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like many young piano players, we first met Beethoven early in our music journey. He\u2019s one of the most famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-don-and-delayna-beattie","tag-beethoven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}