{"id":15156,"date":"2020-09-18T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T23:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2020-10-13T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:56:40","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-rolf-van-meurs-plays-the-iconic-1st-movement-of-beethovens-5th-on-an-8-string-stauffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-rolf-van-meurs-plays-the-iconic-1st-movement-of-beethovens-5th-on-an-8-string-stauffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Rolf van Meurs Plays the Iconic 1st Movement of Beethoven’s 5th on an 8-String ‘Stauffer’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve been following what we post on this website for a few years, you know that I am kind of a freak<\/em> for Beethoven, and I’m always on the lookout for classical-guitar versions of his works. There aren’t a hell of a lot of them, though the number has been growing through the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, when I recently searched “Beethoven classical guitar” on YouTube\u2014as I do a couple of times of year\u2014I was greeted with videos featuring an unfamiliar name: Rolf van Meurs<\/a>, a Dutch guitarist who studied with Enno Voorhorst, Tom Burmanje, and, once he was ensconced in the master’s program at the Lemmens Institute, the great Raphaella Smits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this terrific and inspired solo guitar version of the immortal first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony (Allegro con brio<\/em>), he plays a beautiful modern Bernhard Kresse copy of a period 8-string Stauffer guitar, with octaved basses, and it’s amazing to hear how symphonic his arrangement is! (Rolf’s lone album release<\/a>, from 2015, used the same instrument for interpreting works by Luigi Legnani, who helped Stauffer develop that style of 8-string.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Beethoven’s birthday this coming December, we’ll share Rolf’s wonderful 6-string arrangement of the famous second movement of Beethoven’s 7th! \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’ve been following what we post on this website for a few years, you know that I am kind of a freak for Beethoven, and I’m always on the lookout for classical-guitar versions of his works. There aren’t a hell of a lot of them, though the number has been growing through the years. Well, when I recently searched “Beethoven classical guitar” on YouTube\u2014as I do a couple of times of year\u2014I was greeted with videos featuring an unfamiliar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Rolf-van-Meurs-e1600470986193.jpg?fit=800%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}