{"id":4179,"date":"2016-12-24T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2016-12-23T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:50:17","slug":"christmas-blog-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2016\/12\/24\/christmas-blog-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only the Christmas season that comes around again to private homes once a year, but also the Christmas tree, at least since the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Friends and relatives are invited, there must be decorations and lots of other things have to be organised.\u00a0 Not even a composer\u2019s household was spared.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1869 Richard and Cosima Wagner spend Christmas in Switzerland. Arriving as a guest just in time for the 24<sup>th<\/sup> is none other than Friedrich Nietzsche, who immediately gets involved in the preparations. Cosima records about the Wagnerian chaos in her diary: \u2018Professor Nietzsche comes in the morning and helps me set up the puppet theatre. In the afternoon I still have to take care of some other things while Richard rehearses [the story of] Servant Rupert [St. Nicholas\u2019s companion in German folklore] and the little Christ Child [these characters are German stand-ins for Santa Claus].\u2019 So, how was it to celebrate these holidays with of all people the future author of <em>Die fr\u00f6hliche Wissenschaft<\/em> and <em>Der Antichrist<\/em> [\u2018The Gay Science\u2019 and \u2018The Antichrist\u2019]? Maybe like this?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4181\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2016\/12\/Weihnachten-bei-wagner-Kopie.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4181\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4181\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2016\/12\/Weihnachten-bei-wagner-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2016\/12\/Weihnachten-bei-wagner-Kopie.jpg 549w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2016\/12\/Weihnachten-bei-wagner-Kopie-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collage by G. Henle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Perhaps it was more amusing at the home of Franz Liszt, Cosima\u2019s father. Liszt, who has a lot of his music in our blue Urtext editions, dedicated to his granddaughter a very special Christmas tree, the suite <em>Der Weihnachtsbaum. Arbre de No\u00ebl<\/em>, Searle 186:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FljrZzx6CUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Your Henle blog authors,<\/p>\n<p>Norbert Gertsch<br \/>\nPeter Jost<br \/>\nNorbert M\u00fcllemann<br \/>\nAnnette Oppermann<br \/>\nDominik Rahmer<br \/>\nWolf-Dieter Seiffert<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only the Christmas season that comes around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2016\/12\/24\/christmas-blog-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,3,294],"tags":[96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}