{"id":1417,"date":"2019-04-13T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinemussies.nl\/web\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2019-04-13T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:33:07","slug":"meirminnen-zwollo-couperus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinemussies.nl\/web\/meirminnen-zwollo-couperus\/","title":{"rendered":"Meirminnen &#8211; Zwollo\/Couperus"},"content":{"rendered":"\nInspired by the image of the mermaid as a symbol for a forbidden love (that beckons as a siren, but will never become reality), I made many trips &#8211; from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg and from Helsinki to Azerbaijan. But not all treasures are hidden at a great distance. Last year, I boarded the train to my neighbouring city The Hague, for some good old-fashioned musicological strolling in the analogue archives. The gem that attracted me? A 1918 song called &#8220;Meirminnen&#8221;. For the Dutch journal &#8220;De Liedvriend&#8221; (the friend of the art song), I wrote a short article about this charming song, that just got published. Sheet music and piano in the YouTube below&#8230; enjoy!<\/p><br>\n\n<iframe width=\"1090\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QU5vy1E6G9o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p><br>\nThe article in its beautiful lay-out can be read <a href=https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/38923833\/Meirminnen_-_Louis_Couperus_and_Maria_Zwollo target=new rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (via my Academia.edu), but it is in Dutch, an English version will follow. \n<p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the image of the mermaid as a symbol for a forbidden love (that beckons as a siren, but will never become reality), I made many trips &#8211; from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72],"tags":[118,129,183,186,189,240],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mermaids","category-musicology","tag-couperus","tag-dutch","tag-meirminnen","tag-mermaids","tag-musicology","tag-zwollo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meirminnen - Zwollo\/Couperus &#187; 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