{"id":16274,"date":"2025-02-10T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T16:44:34","slug":"daniel-barenboim-announces-parkinsons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/02\/10\/daniel-barenboim-announces-parkinsons-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Barenboim Announces He Has Parkinson\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12066\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Barenboim\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Daniel Barenboim Decca Classics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, the legendary pianist and conductor announced he has been suffering from Parkinson\u2019s Disease. The news release follows Barenboim\u2019s previous disclosure that he was experiencing a serious neurological condition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beat on the ground:<\/strong> On February 6th, Daniel Barenboim disclosed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DFup5Tsi7dV\/?img_index=1&amp;igsh=cHpqeHF1eWVvZ3l0\">on social media<\/a> that he has Parkinson\u2019s Disease. In his release, the 82-year-old pianist and conductor noted that he plans to continue with as many of his professional engagements as possible. He also noted that the ongoing success of his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra remains his top priority, which he will conduct whenever possible and ensure has excellent conductors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch me up:<\/strong> The legendary Argentine-Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999 as a way to bring Israeli and Arab musicians together. He also co-founded the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin with the Palestinian scholar Edward Said\u2014a pluralist music school for students from across the Middle East\u2014where Barenboim continues to teach.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Daniel Barenboim has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/08\/arts\/music\/daniel-barenboim-80th-birthday.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">bowed out of various engagements<\/a> due to declining health, including resigning as music director of the Berlin State Opera. His musical peace initiatives are needed more than ever at this difficult historical moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Daniel Barenboim  announced he has been suffering from Parkinson\u2019s Disease. The news release follows Barenboim\u2019s previous disclosure that he was experiencing a serious neurological condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3],"tags":[43],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Daniel-Barenboim.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16275,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions\/16275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}