{"id":3666,"date":"2016-03-01T16:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:47:10","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-david-leisner-plays-j-k-mertzs-sublime-elegie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-david-leisner-plays-j-k-mertzs-sublime-elegie\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: David Leisner Plays J.K. Mertz&#8217;s Sublime &#8216;Elegie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856; also known as Caspar Joseph Mertz) was a child prodigy on both guitar and flute, a music teacher from the age of 12 on, and later a successful performer and composer based in Vienna. His works for guitar\u2014solo, duo, chamber; for conventional classical guitar and for <em>terz<\/em> guitar\u2014have been widely performed and recorded, particularly in recent times. Here, his haunting (and challenging) &#8220;Elegie&#8221; is beautifully rendered by <a href=\"http:\/\/davidleisner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Leisner<\/a>, himself a supremely talented guitarist, composer, and teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856; also known as Caspar Joseph Mertz) was a child prodigy on both guitar and flute, a music teacher from the age of 12 on, and later a successful performer and composer based in Vienna. His works for guitar\u2014solo, duo, chamber; for conventional classical guitar and for terz guitar\u2014have been widely performed and recorded, particularly in recent times. Here, his haunting (and challenging) &#8220;Elegie&#8221; is beautifully rendered by David Leisner, himself a supremely talented guitarist, composer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/video-pick-of-the-week-david-leisner-plays-mertz-8217-s-sublime-8216-elegy-8217.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}