{"id":512,"date":"2014-10-06T04:51:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=512"},"modified":"2020-03-14T03:45:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:45:06","slug":"ysaye-eugene-caprice-dapres-letude-en-forme-de-valse-de-c-saint-saens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=512","title":{"rendered":"Ysaye, Eugene: &#8216;Caprice d\u2019apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00c9tude en forme de valse de C. Saint-Sa\u00ebns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Eugene Ysaye&nbsp;<\/span>was one of the finest violinists in the storied history of the instrument. Like many performers of earlier generations, he wrote a substantial number of works for his own concerts, as well as for his students and friends. The current work is based on a piece by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns, who was not known as a deep or probing composer, and a virtuosic caprice built upon his tunes has little potential to be a life-altering musical experience. But this is not a flaw: Saint-Sa\u00ebns had few&nbsp;intentions to write metaphysical works, and neither did Ysa\u00ffe. And even the simplest works of Ysa\u00ffe, light though the may be, defy dismissal. His virtuosity is too inviting; his harmonic insights are too acute; and his sense of what to give as a neighborly offering is unfailingly warm. This brief fantasy is not only built upon the work of Saint-Sa\u00ebns, but upon Ysa\u00ffe\u2019s unmatched knowledge of the possibilities of music as it lies in the wood, gut, and hair of the instrument itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Ysaye&nbsp;was one of the finest violinists in the storied history of the instrument. Like many performers of earlier generations, he wrote a substantial number of works for his own concerts, as well as for his students and friends. The current work is based on a piece by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns, who was not known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512\/revisions\/1262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}