{"id":286,"date":"2015-12-10T19:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=286"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:50:53","slug":"no-4-how-did-celebrated-19th-century-composers-and-performers-spend-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"How Did Celebrated 19th-century Composers and Performers Spend the Holiday Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"christmasPartywithCaption\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption-988x1024.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption-222x230.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmasPartywithCaption.jpg 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BatonChristmasCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BatonChristmasCover-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"BatonChristmasCover\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BatonChristmasCover-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BatonChristmasCover-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BatonChristmasCover-174x230.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>The Baton<\/em> III, no. 3 (December, 1923): 13] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[<em>The Baton<\/em> V, no. 3 (December, 1925): 1]<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the holiday season, we turn to the December 1925 issue of <em>The Baton <\/em>(New York, 1922-1932). The following article, \u201cGlimpses of Christmas: From the Correspondence of Great Musicians\u201d shows how some celebrated nineteenth-century musicians \u201cof the past spent Christmas\u201d as illustrated through their correspondence and diaries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article below to see how Robert Schumann, Jenny Lind, Hans von B\u00fclow, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and others celebrated Christmas and the holiday season. (Click on each image to zoom in.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-289 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"GlimpsesofXmas1\" width=\"730\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1-506x710.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas1-164x230.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-290 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"GlimpsesofXmas2\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2-503x710.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas2-163x230.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-291 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"GlimpsesofXmas3\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3-506x710.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/GlimpsesofXmas3-164x230.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<em>The Baton<\/em> V no. 3, (December, 1925): 2-4]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The staff at the RIPM Center wishes all of you a happy and healthy holiday season and best wishes for the coming year!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RIPM Search Tip<\/u>:<\/strong> For more interesting holiday stories, search RIPM\u2019s Retrospective Index for \u201cChristmas\u201d within the periodical <em>The Baton.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [The Baton III, no. 3 (December, 1923): 13] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[The Baton V, no. 3 (December, 1925): 1] To celebrate the holiday season, we turn to the December 1925 issue of The Baton (New York, 1922-1932). The following article, \u201cGlimpses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9,14,16,12,10,11,17,13],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curioschronicles","tag-beethoven","tag-brah","tag-christmas","tag-lind","tag-liszt","tag-schumann","tag-the-baton","tag-von-bulow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}