{"id":35014,"date":"2019-05-07T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=35014"},"modified":"2019-05-07T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:10:15","slug":"liszts-7-classical-musicians-who-were-caught-doing-things-they-shouldnt-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2019\/05\/07\/liszts-7-classical-musicians-who-were-caught-doing-things-they-shouldnt-have\/","title":{"rendered":"LISZTS | 7 Musicians Who Were Caught Doing Things They Shouldn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">1 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3>Igor Stravinsky<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Stravinsky-mug-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Stravinsky-mug-shot.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Stravinsky-mug-shot-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Stravinsky-mug-shot-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Stravinsky-mug-shot-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h3>Occupation: Composer<\/h3>\n<h3>Crime: Defaming The American National Anthem<\/h3>\n<p>Igor Stravinsky was a composer who made an entire career out of riling up the musical establishment. He said he hoped his riot-inducing &#8220;The Rite of Spring&#8221; would send the European establishment all to hell. The riots ensued, and so did his reputation. The following year in 1944 \u2013 while he was in Boston, Massachusetts to conduct the\u00a0Boston Symphony \u2014 he marked the occasion by conducting his own arrangement of the \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d The police were not impressed, particularly with his &#8220;liberal&#8221; use of harmony under the melody. The police forced him to pull the arrangement from the program the following day. All that for a dominant seventh chord&#8230; You can hear the offending anthem here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1taQl-wOmo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h1>2 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3>Glenn Gould<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/glenn-gould-hat-and-gloves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/glenn-gould-hat-and-gloves.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/glenn-gould-hat-and-gloves-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/glenn-gould-hat-and-gloves-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/glenn-gould-hat-and-gloves-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Occupation: Pianist\/Producer\/Composer<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Crime<\/strong>: Suspicion of Vagrancy<\/h3>\n<p>While in\u00a0Sarasota Florida for a concert, Toronto-based pianist Glenn Gould \u2014 who famously had a proclivity for wearing\u00a0hats, gloves, and winter coats in the summer \u2014 thought he&#8217;d take in some air on a park bench before a concert. \u00a0He was approached by Police and arrested under suspicion of being a homeless drifter. Gould was later released after his identity as a famous concert pianist was revealed.<\/p>\n<h1>3 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3>Carlo Gesualdo<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Carlo_Gesualdo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Occupation: Composer<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Crime<\/strong>:\u00a0Double Homicide<\/h3>\n<p>Gesualdo&#8217;s run-in with the law sounds like something right out of a horror movie. In a fit of rage after finding his lover cheating on him, Gesualdo murdered them both. He managed to escape\u00a0prosecution by using his\u00a0nobility to shield him. Gesualdo\u00a0spent the rest of his life writing choral and instrumental music, some of which include texts that allude directly to the murder. Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog\u2019s made a documentary about Gesualdo\u00a0called,\u00a0Death for Five Voices (1995) which examines the gruesome mythos surrounding the murders and their aftermath.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7z4j1xzYTFU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h1>4 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3>Ludwig van Beethoven<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Beethoven-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Beethoven-image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Beethoven-image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Beethoven-image-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Beethoven-image-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Occupation: Composer<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Crime<\/strong>:\u00a0Vagrancy<\/h3>\n<p>Beethoven was a notorious workaholic who preferred to leave things like grooming, laundry, and housework to mear mortals to worry about. Things came crashing down to earth when in 1820,\u00a0 Beethoven\u00a0went out for a walk in the Austrian town of Weiner Neustadt. He became lost and started peering into the windows\u00a0of homes looking for someone to ask for help. A beat cop\u00a0saw him peeping through someone&#8217;s\u00a0curtains and arrested him for vagrancy.<\/p>\n<p>While in jail, Beethoven gave the constables a piece of his mind. One policeman reportedly went to a commissioner for help in dealing with him. \u201cHerr Commissioner,\u201d he said, \u201cWe have arrested a man who\u00a0<em>gives us no rest<\/em>, and yells all the time that he is Beethoven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A very angry Beethoven remained in jail until the city\u2019s musical director (Herr Herzog) came to bail him out.<\/p>\n<h1>5 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3>Johann Sebastian Bach<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JSBach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JSBach.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JSBach-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JSBach-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/JSBach-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Occupation: Composer<\/h3>\n<h3>CHARGE: \u201cToo Stubbornly Forcing The Issue Of His Dismissal.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Bach was working a job\u00a0a chamber musician in the Court of the Duke of Sachsen-Weimar in 1708 with the understanding he would eventually succeed to the position of Kapellmeister when the\u00a0incumbent died. After five years of waiting the Kapellmeister died, but the job went to the\u00a0Kapellmeister&#8217;s inept son. The nearby Court of Anhalt-C\u00f6then (a rival to\u00a0Duke of Sachsen-Weimar) heard that Bach was passed up for the job, and invited him to serve as Kapellmeister for his court. Bach took the job, but not before being arrested and thrown in jail for 30 days on the order of a spiteful Duke of Sachsen-Weimar. Bach spent his time in the big house composing\u00a0chorale preludes for organ, which were later published in his Orgelb\u00fcchlein.<\/p>\n<h1>6 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"content__headline js-score\">Montserrat Caball\u00e9<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"content__headline js-score\"><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60437\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Caballe-photo-credit-David-H.-Fishman.jpg\" alt=\"Montserrat Caball\u00e9\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Caballe-photo-credit-David-H.-Fishman.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Caballe-photo-credit-David-H.-Fishman-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Caballe-photo-credit-David-H.-Fishman-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/Caballe-photo-credit-David-H.-Fishman-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montserrat Caball\u00e9 as Violetta in La traviata, her Lyric Opera of Chicago (Photo: David H. Fishman\/Lyric Opera of Chicago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Occupation:\u00a0Singer<\/h3>\n<h3>CHARGE: Tax Evasion<\/h3>\n<p>Spanish soprano\u00a0Montserrat Caball\u00e9 made millions of\u00a0fans after singing in Barcelona with Queen\u2019s lead singer, Freddie Mercury, at the 1992 Olympic Games. Caball\u00e9 achieved international success in 1965 when she made her debut filling in for another singer in Donizetti\u2019s opera at the MET. Unfortunately,\u00a0her reputation took a dive when it was discovered she had been defrauding authorities to the tune of \u20ac500,000. She was arrested and given a\u00a0six-month suspended sentence with a fine of more than \u20ac250,000.<\/p>\n<h1>7 \u2014<\/h1>\n<h2>Franz Schubert<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/schubert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/schubert.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/schubert-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/schubert-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/schubert-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Occupation: Composer<\/h3>\n<h3>CHARGE: Opprobrious language<\/h3>\n<p>While enjoying a rowdy evening out with his friends, Franz Schubert was arrested in Vienna under suspicion of being up to no good. While being accosted by the police, he insulted them, resulting in a charge of using abusive language.<\/p>\n<h3><b><i>LUDWIG VAN TORONTO<\/i><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><i>Want more updates on classical music and opera news and reviews? 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