{"id":1030,"date":"2022-10-11T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:52:20","slug":"daniel-barenboim-stepping-down-due-to-health-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2022\/10\/11\/daniel-barenboim-stepping-down-due-to-health-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Barenboim Stepping Down Due to Health Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1033\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Barenboim\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Barenboim, Conductor, in repetition before the concert for Human Rights. 10 December 2016. UN Photo \/ Jean-Marc Ferr\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following a diagnosis of a &#8220;serious neurological condition,&#8221; renowned 79-year-old conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim stated he will be taking a break from &#8220;some performing activities, especially conducting engagements for the coming months&#8221; in order to focus on his health.<\/p>\n<p>He issued the following announcement on his social media accounts:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with a combination of pride and sadness that I announce today that I am taking a step back from some of my performing activities, especially conducting engagements, for the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy health has deteriorated over the last months, and I have been diagnosed with a serious neurological condition. I must now focus on my physical well-being as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic has always been and continues to be an essential and lasting part of my life. I have lived all my life in and through music, and I will continue to do so as long as my health allows me to. Looking back and ahead, I am not only content but deeply fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-twitter-2022-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1051\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His announcement came just after he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gramophone.co.uk\/awards\/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gramophone Classical Music Awards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>One of the great ones<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As mentioned in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/oct\/09\/the-guardian-view-on-daniel-barenboim-a-musical-and-moral-beacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Guardian<\/a>, Barenboim follows in the footsteps of classical music titans Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Casals, and Arturo Toscanini.<\/p>\n<p>His absence leaves a gap in classical music that will be hard to fill.<\/p>\n<p>We wish him well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a diagnosis of a &#8220;serious neurological condition,&#8221; renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim stated he will be taking a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[43],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}