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Twenty-five years ago, when I wrote this short biography of Beethoven, I didn't want to finish any musicology works. That's 1902, and I'm going through a period of unrest. I left Paris and came to Bonn, Beethoven's hometown. Beethoven has been my companion since childhood, and he has repeatedly inspired me to continue fighting on the battlefield of life. Here, I found his shadow again, and I heard his symphony concert. In the foggy Rhine, on that wet and gloomy April day, I felt his pain, his courage, his happiness and his sadness; Pour out my heart to him. From him, I rediscovered the courage of life and the meaning of life, just like a patient was cured. So, I set foot on the road back to Paris.

Later, I wrote this booklet-The Biography of Beethoven. Not for academic research, but a song that makes a wounded and suffocated heart thank the savior after rebirth. Unexpectedly, this booklet spread quickly. At that time, millions of French creatures and oppressed idealists were anxiously waiting for the signal of liberation. They heard this signal from Beethoven's music. This booklet is about Beethoven, but it retains many images of people who pursue freedom and struggle. They have found their own shadow in it. This pamphlet was written by an unknown person, came from an unknown shop, and spread among the public within a few days. It no longer belongs to me.

I read the book again, although there are some shortcomings, but I don't want to change it. I think we should keep its original appearance and original image. On the occasion of Beethoven's centenary birthday, I want to commemorate those upright and sincere masters.

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"I want to prove that anyone who is kind and noble in behavior will certainly be able to bear hardships."

—Beethoven

(1 819 February1Vienna municipal government)

How heavy is the air around us. The whole of Europe is shrouded in a muddy and vulgar materialistic atmosphere, and society suffocates in selfishness, and human beings are overwhelmed. Open the window! Let the free air come in again and breathe the hero's breath!

Life is hard. For those who are unwilling to be mediocre, their lives are doomed to be miserable, without glory, happiness and lonely struggle. Poverty, anxiety and heavy and boring work oppress their bodies and consume their energy. They are victims and protesters. From them, we see the two most brilliant flowers in the human spirit: justice and freedom. However, they are still scattered in every corner of the world, isolated from each other and unaware of each other's existence. They can only fight alone. In order to support them and let them feel each other's existence, I have gathered some heroic people and some great hearts that suffer for goodness to dedicate to these great people who are also in pain!

The hero I am talking about is not a person who is proud of his thoughts or strength, but a person with a great heart. As one of them said, "I don't recognize any signs of superiority except kindness." Without great personality, there is no great man.

These people have suffered for a long time. Or tragic fate torments their souls physically and mentally, tempering their will on the anvil of poverty and disease; Or the compatriots who suffered nameless humiliation and disaster broke their hearts. Although they are great because of perseverance, it is these sufferings that make them great. Therefore, those unfortunate people should not lament too much because of the hardships of life. You see, the best people among mankind are walking with you. Draw the courage of life from them! These sacred hearts exude a kind of life power and love. We don't need to inquire about their works or listen to their voices. Just from their eyes, we can see how great and fulfilling life is in suffering!

Among these heroes, I gave the chief position to the strong and pure Beethoven. He hopes that his suffering experience will give strength to other victims. "I hope those unfortunate people can masturbate, because they see a victim who is as unfortunate as them, a person who tries his best to be a valuable person regardless of natural obstacles." After overcoming all kinds of hardships, this great man gave people a warning: "Man, you should strive for self-improvement!" " "

We should feel something about this meaningful sentence. According to his words, we should regain our confidence in life and human beings!

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Beethoven's great love

"Doing good is better than everything.

Don't forget the truth even for the sake of the throne. "

—Beethoven's Notes (1792)

Beethoven looked short and round, and was born to be the skeleton of an athlete. Her face looks very wide, always reddish, her forehead protrudes, and her hair is unusually dark and thick. The most noteworthy thing is his eyes. There is always an inexplicable deterrent in his eyes, which shocked all those who saw him. However, these eyes are deep and small, and only when they are excited or angry will they open wide, making people feel the ups and downs of the soul behind their eyes; These eyes are melancholy again. He always stares at the sky with those melancholy eyes. Beethoven's nose is short and square, just like a lion's nose. Beethoven has a delicate mouth, but his lower lip protrudes forward from his upper lip. His gums are strong, as if he could easily bite a hard walnut. His whole face is a bit odd, but according to his friend Mosis, "He has a beautiful smile, and there is always a lovely and pleasant look between conversations. However, her smile is also rude, ugly and always fleeting. " He is a man who is not used to laughing. Melancholy is his most common expression and an incurable internal injury. Before he died, he always liked to sit in the corner of the hotel, smoking a long pipe alone and closing his eyes. His expression is changeable, sometimes calm, sometimes his muscles tremble, and his eyes suddenly open, which is very terrible, just like King Lear in Shakespeare's plays.

His full name is Lutvik? Fan? Beethoven, 1770 12 16, was born in the attic of a shabby hut in Bonn near Cologne. He was born in a Flemish family, a musical family, and his grandfather's name was Lutvik. At the age of 20, he came to Pune and became a local musician. His father is a tenor, not smart, but likes to drink; Beethoven's mother was a maid and the daughter of a chef. At first, she married a footman. After her husband died, she remarried to Beethoven's father.

Fate seems to play tricks on him. Beethoven began to struggle with fate from birth. Father wants to develop her musical talent and always shows off as an avatar. At the age of four, his father made him sit in front of the dulcimer all day, or locked him in a room with a piano. Father always used violence to force Beethoven to study. At the age of eleven, Beethoven joined the theater band; When he was thirteen, he became a great organist. Luckily, he finally stopped hating music. 1787 Beethoven's mother died of lung disease, which was a heavy blow to Beethoven. Moreover, he always thought that he was infected with the same disease as his mother and often felt pain. From then on, an inexplicable melancholy about life began to torment his spirit and body. At the age of seventeen, Beethoven became the head of the family and was responsible for the education of two brothers. He even had to ask his father to retire in shame, because his father was too drunk to take care of his family. People are even afraid that his father will squander money and even ask him to receive his father's pension. This left a deep scar in his heart. In order to make a living at home, he found a tutor and got to know the Boloni family he cherished all his life. There is a lovely girl named Elliot who is two years younger than Beethoven in this family. Special? Boloni, Beethoven is responsible for teaching her music and poetry. They became best friends as children. Later, Elliot married Dr. Wigler, and he became Beethoven's lifelong confidant. They kept the purest friendship until the end.

Although Beethoven's childhood was very tragic, he always had a beautiful and sad memory of being born in his hometown. Later, he left Bonn and came to Vienna. He has lived here almost all his life, but he has never forgotten his hometown on the Rhine. The Rhine, like a flowing soul, gave him endless thoughts and strength, and he eagerly called the Rhine "father". This is the habitat of his wandering mind, and he has returned to his hometown in countless dreams-grassland blown by the wind, poplar covered with white fog, dense Woods, villages, churches, cemeteries, and distant peaks draw a cold figure in the blue sky. Bedo once said in a letter to a friend, "My hometown, the beautiful place where I was born, will always be so beautiful and bright in my eyes."

1789, the French Revolution broke out and quickly swept across Europe. Similarly, the Great Revolution occupied Beethoven's heart. At that time, Beethoven had just entered Bonn University, where he accepted new ideas. 1792165438+1October, the war spread to Bonn, and Beethoven left his hometown and came to Vienna, music city. During this period, Beethoven was always influenced by patriotism. 1796 and 1797, Beethoven compiled Fretburg's war poems into two musical works: March and We Are a Great Nation with Desperate Will. Although he eulogized the enemies of the Great Revolution under the influence of patriotism, Beethoven has always been strongly influenced by the great revolutionary thought. Since 1798, although the relationship between Austria and France is very tense, Beethoven still keeps in touch with many French people, including Marshal Todd, who made great achievements during the Great Revolution. The association with these people made Beethoven support harmony more and more, and this tendency developed more vigorously in his later years.

At this time, Beethoven became more and more aware of his ambition and felt that he had an infinite power. However, when Beethoven began to have full confidence in life, the magic of fate had slowly seized him. From 1796 to 1800, his ears are ringing day and night, and his hearing is declining. For several years, he kept a secret from his family and his best friend. He avoids talking to others, so that his disability will not be discovered; He suffered the secret alone, and his psychological pain became more and more unbearable. 180 1, he told this story to two friends: Dr. Wegler and Reverend Amante.

In a letter to Wei Geller, he wrote:

I lead a miserable life. For two years, I have been suffering from my ears. I will try to avoid all social activities, because I can't tell others, "I am deaf." If I were in another industry, if I didn't work in the music industry, I might say so. But unfortunately, this is where I live. If people knew I was deaf, would they still believe in my musical talent? Will they listen to my music again? What will my enemies think? I really can't imagine these terrible consequences! In the theater, I have to sit

Only in the nearest place to the band can you understand what the actors say. If I were farther away, I wouldn't hear the high notes of instruments and songs. When people speak softly, I can barely hear some, but I can only hear some voices, but I can't hear what they are saying; If people shout loudly, I suffer. I often curse the creator why he punished me so much and why he made me suffer such a disaster. Ratak told me to learn patience, but I want to challenge my fate. I want to live in the country for six months. This may be good for me. You see, in the face of illness, I actually fled to the countryside, how pitiful! However, I have no other choice.

This kind of tragedy is sadness, which was manifested in Beethoven's works at that time. When people are lonely and sad, they always like to recall the happy times of past lives. When the present is too painful, you live in the past. When Beethoven was tortured alone in Vienna, he hid in nostalgia for his hometown. At that time, his septets and the first symphony revealed his yearning for the Rhine.

In addition to these pains, there is another kind of pain-the pain from love. Beethoven's heart is somewhat puritan, and he has always had a sacred and pure view of love. Such people are destined to be victims of love. He did it. He constantly loves others, is infatuated with others, and constantly fantasizes about happiness, but his illusions are always shattered, and then he always suffers in pain. Beethoven's creative inspiration may be found in this emotional cycle of love and resistance.

180 1 year, he and a woman named Qi Li aitai? Chichildi's girl is in love. This has brought some changes to his closed and painful life, and his contact with others has increased. Beethoven loved this girl deeply, but this love made him pay a high price. First of all, this love made him pay special attention to his disability, which made him unable to marry the person he loved. Secondly, Chili loves Mosso and is selfish, which makes Beethoven very upset. 1803, 165438+ 10. In October, Cherie Aitai married the Earl of Galenburg. Later, he used his previous love with Beethoven to ask him to help her husband. Beethoven immediately agreed. At 182 1, when he met Schindler, he wrote:

She came to Vienna to cry to me, but I looked down on her. Such love is a kind of destruction to a kind heart.

Like Beethoven, when his mind was tortured, the madness of love brought him to the brink of destruction. In desperation, he even wrote a letter to his brother as a will, which said, "I will not open it even if I die." It seems that he has reached the end of his life.

However, he didn't choose the road of death in the end because of his strong moral sentiment. In his will to his brother, he wrote:

Educate your children with the best moral sentiments and always remember this: it is virtue, not money, that makes people happy. This is my experience. What supports me in the predicament is morality, and what keeps me from committing suicide is morality outside art.

In May 6, 5438+086, 5438+00, Beethoven wrote again:

If I didn't know that a person should not end his life before completing good deeds, I would have died long ago. If I can recover, I would like to embrace the whole world! I feel that my youth has just begun. I feel much better recently. I feel that I have seen my goal in life, and I am getting closer every day. How wonderful it is to live people a thousand times!