{"id":15542,"date":"2020-12-16T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2020-12-16T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:58:41","slug":"its-beethovens-birthday-we-celebrate-with-guitar-videos-from-rolf-van-meurs-and-the-virtual-guitar-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/its-beethovens-birthday-we-celebrate-with-guitar-videos-from-rolf-van-meurs-and-the-virtual-guitar-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Beethoven&#8217;s Birthday! We Celebrate with Guitar Videos from Rolf van Meurs and the Virtual Guitar Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year we love to celebrate the birthday of  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_van_Beethoven\">Ludwig van Beethoven<\/a>, both because he was SO great and also to hopefully encourage more <em>guitarists <\/em>to play his music; it&#8217;s surprising there really isn&#8217;t that much out there. And this particular birthday is a big one: 250!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, please enjoy these two very cool videos. The first features Dutch guitarist <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rolfvanmeurs.nl\/nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rolf van Meurs<\/a>, whom we showcased <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-rolf-van-meurs-plays-the-iconic-1st-movement-of-beethovens-5th-on-an-8-string-stauffer\/\" target=\"_blank\">playing the iconic first movement <\/a>of Beethoven&#8217;s 5th Symphony back in September 2020. Here, he plays a stirring version of the famous second movement of my all-time favorite work, Beethoven&#8217;s 7th Symphony. The second video is a fantastically imaginative pastiche of moments from all of  Beethoven&#8217;s symphonies\u2014dubbed <em>9 Symphonies for 9 Guitars<\/em>\u2014performed by the always-changing <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualguitarorchestra.com\/\">Virtual Guitar Orchestra<\/a>, this time featuring Mak Grgic, Kevin Loh, Uros Baric, William Johnston, Jure Cerkovnik, An Tran, David Steinhardt, Jano\u0161 Jurin\u010di\u010d, and Nejc Kuhar. The piece was conceived by Mak Grgic and composed\/collaged by Leon Fir\u0161t, with video production handled by Uros Baric. A bold idea brilliantly executed! \u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Beethoven&#039;s 7th Symphony [Allegretto] for Classical Guitar - Rolf van Meurs\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQMeDkKo_lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"9 Symphonies For 9 Guitars by Leon Fir\u0161t - Virtual Guitar Orchestra #beethoven250 Special Edition\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZlSGeWoJcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we love to celebrate the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, both because he was SO great and also to hopefully encourage more guitarists to play his music; it&#8217;s surprising there really isn&#8217;t that much out there. And this particular birthday is a big one: 250! So, please enjoy these two very cool videos. The first features Dutch guitarist Rolf van Meurs, whom we showcased playing the iconic first movement of Beethoven&#8217;s 5th Symphony back in September 2020. Here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/beethoven.jpg?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","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=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}