{"id":17437,"date":"2020-12-30T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T10:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=17437"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T11:11:53","slug":"kw-53-2020-leonard_cohen_and_beethoven-ja-auch-dazu-gibt-es-eine-geschichte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=17437","title":{"rendered":"KW-53-2020: #Leonard_Cohen_and_Beethoven? &#8211; Yep, there is a story behind &#8211; Ja, auch dazu gibt es eine Geschichte: &#8222;Would Beethoven refuse the invitation of Mozart?\u201c &#8211; Leonard Cohen asked Phil Collins, when Cohen was working on the \u201cTower Of Song\u201d-Tribute-Album in the year of 1995. Cohen said in an Interview : \u201cI asked him, and he declined. And I wrote him saying, \u201eWould Beethoven decline Mozart\u2019s invitation?\u201c He wrote back a lovely fax, saying \u201eNo, but Beethoven must decline, because Beethoven is going on worldtour. It was a very charming fax he sent me, and completely legitimate.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8222;Would Beethoven refuse the invitation of Mozart?\u201c<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Leonard Cohen<\/b> <b>asked<\/b> <b>Phil<\/b> <b>Collins,<\/b> <b>when<\/b> <b>Cohen was <\/b><b>w<\/b><b>orking on the \u201cTower Of Song\u201d-Tribute-Album in the year of 1995. Cohen said in an Interview : \u201cI <\/b><b>asked him, and he declined. And I wrote him saying, \u201eWould Beethoven decline Mozart\u2019s invitation?\u201c He wrote back a lovely fax, saying <\/b><b>\u201eNo, but Beethoven <\/b><b>must <\/b><b>decline, <\/b><b>because Beethoven is going on <\/b><b>worldtour<\/b><b>. <\/b><b>It was a very charming fax he sent me, and completely legitimate<\/b><b>.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cohenpedia-archives-PHIL_COLLINS_BEETHOVEN_by-ChristofGraf-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-17463\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cohenpedia-archives-PHIL_COLLINS_BEETHOVEN_by-ChristofGraf-b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>story taken from my book: LEONARD COHEN &#8211; Partisan der Liebe, K\u00f6ln, 1996, vgs &#8211; verlagsgesellschaft<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LC-Book_Partisan_der_Liebe_by_ChristofGraf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-17467\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LC-Book_Partisan_der_Liebe_by_ChristofGraf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Would Beethoven refuse the invitation of Mozart?\u201c Leonard Cohen asked Phil Collins, when Cohen was working on the \u201cTower Of Song\u201d-Tribute-Album in the year of 1995. Cohen said in an Interview : \u201cI asked him, and he declined. And I wrote him saying, \u201eWould Beethoven decline Mozart\u2019s invitation?\u201c He wrote back a lovely fax, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17470,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17437\/revisions\/17470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}