{"id":1959,"date":"2017-10-30T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicon.byzantinewalls.org\/?p=67"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T06:43:13","slug":"kierkegaard-i-owe-everything-to-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/1959\/kierkegaard-i-owe-everything-to-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"Kierkegaard: I owe everything to Mozart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his Don Giovanni, Mozart joins that little immortal band of men whose names, whose works, time will not forget because eternity recollects them.<\/p>\n<p>Immortal Mozart!\u00a0 You to whom I owe everything\u2014to whom I owe that I lost my mind, that my soul was astounded, that I was terrified at the core of my being\u2014you to whom I owe that I did not go through life without encountering something that could shake me, you whom I thank because I did not die without having loved, even though my love was unhappy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No wonder, then, that I am much more zealous for his glorification than for the happiest moment of my own life, much more zealous for his immortality than for my own existence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, if he were taken away, if his name were blotted out, that would demolish the one pillar that until now has prevented everything from collapsing for me into a boundless chaos, into a dreadful nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d4\/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard_%281813-1855%29_-_%28cropped%29.jpg\" style=\"border:none;\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his Don Giovanni, Mozart joins that little immortal band of men whose names, whose works, time will not forget because eternity recollects them. Immortal Mozart!\u00a0 You to whom I owe everything\u2014to whom I owe that I lost my mind, that my soul was astounded, that I was terrified at the core of my being\u2014you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[3179,4373,475,4374,3281,2568,286],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-chaos","tag-don-giovanni-mozart","tag-eternity","tag-glorification","tag-immortality","tag-kierkegaard","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}