Beethoven's growth story

Ludwig? Where is it? Beethoven (1770- 1827) is one of the greatest musicians in Germany. Born in Bonn, Germany, Holland (also known as Poland) showed his musical talent very early and began to perform at the age of 8. 1792 went to Vienna for further study, and his art made rapid progress. Beethoven believed in harmony and advocated heroes, and created a large number of outstanding works full of the flavor of the times, such as the symphony Heroes and Destiny. Overture Egmont; Piano sonatas Pathetique, Moonlight, Storm, Passion, etc. I had a rough life and didn't get married. I began to lose my hearing at the age of 26, and I was completely deaf in my later years. I can only talk to people through a talk book. However, the lonely life did not make him silent and retired. In the feudal restoration era when all progressive ideas were banned, he still adhered to the political belief of "freedom and equality" and wrote the immortal Ninth Symphony through speeches and works shouting for * * * and ideals. Influenced by the Enlightenment in18th century and the hurricane movement in Germany, his works are distinctive in personality and have made great progress compared with his predecessors. In music performance, he almost involved all the music schools at that time; Greatly improve the expressive force of the piano and make it obtain a symphonic dramatic effect; It also makes symphony an important music form that directly reflects social changes. Beethoven, as a masterpiece of classical music, opened up the road of music in The Romantic Period and played a decisive role in the development of world music. He was addressed as a "saint of music".

all one's life

Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on 1770 12 16. My father is a tenor in the local court choir, moody and addicted to alcohol; My mother is a cook, kind and gentle. The hard life deprived Beethoven of his right to go to school. His musical talent since childhood made his father hope that he would become a musical prodigy and a cash cow for him. He did not hesitate to beat and scold, forcing Beethoven to practice harpsichord and violin endlessly all day since he was four years old. At the age of seven, Beethoven made his debut and achieved great success. He is called the second Mozart. After studying under the organist Ni Fu, he began to learn to compose music. 1 1 published his first work, Variations on the Piano. At the age of 13, he joined the court band as an organist and an ancient pianist. 1787 went to Vienna to study composition under Mozart and Haydn. 1800 years, after his first victory, a bright future appeared in front of Beethoven. But for three or four years, a terrible thing kept tormenting him, and Beethoven found himself deaf. For a musician, nothing is more terrible than hearing loss. So people can understand the heartbreaking pain in the adagio movement of his early piano sonata.

Beethoven is always full of a fiery heart, but his enthusiasm is very unfortunate. He always experienced hope and enthusiasm, disappointment and resistance alternately, which undoubtedly became his source of inspiration. 180 1 year, Beethoven fell in love with Giulietta? Guikader, he dedicated the moonlight sonata to her. However, coquettish, naive and selfish Ai doesn't know his noble soul. 1803 married the Earl of Galenburg, which was a moment of despair. He wrote a suicide note.

1803, he walked out of the haze and wrote a bright and optimistic second symphony. After that, more and better music appeared in his works. Symphony No.3 (Hero), Symphony No.5 (Destiny) and Symphony No.6 (Pastoral), as well as beautiful and cheerful violin concertos and colorful piano concertos and sonatas.

1823, Beethoven completed his last masterpiece, Symphony No.9 (Chorus). This work created his ideal world. 1826 65438+Beethoven had a bad cold in February, which led to pulmonary edema. 1827 On March 26th, Beethoven finally swallowed his last breath because of liver disease. Before his death, there was a sudden snowstorm and thunder rumbled. It seemed that even heaven was mourning the death of this great musician! Beethoven's funeral was very grand. More than 20,000 people automatically followed the coffin, and Schubert's grave was next to his. . Never married. On the 29th, there were 20,000 undertakers, and their bodies were buried in St. Max's Cemetery.

This composer has only been in the world for 57 years, and has completed more than 100 works in his life. The main works include 9 symphonies; Dozens of orchestral music (Egmont overture is the most famous); 5 piano concertos and 1 violin concerto; 5 other concertos; 32 piano sonatas (passion, moonlight, sadness, dawn, storm, etc. Are the most famous); 80 chamber music; Opera 1 Frederio; Another play1; Quality 2 and so on.

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childhood

Beethoven's grandfather and father were both court singers. Most of the time, his father is drunk, and he is not very good to his family. He never even asks if his family is well fed and warm. At first, a kind grandfather can save this family from too much suffering; On the other hand, the musical talent of his eldest grandson also makes the old man feel very gratified. But when Beethoven was only four years old, his grandfather died. Beethoven's father used to drag the child to the keyboard and let him practice there for hours, slapping him whenever he played wrong. Neighbors often hear children sobbing to sleep because of fatigue and pain. Soon, Faifr, a poor traveling musician, came to this town and was taken to Beethoven's home. He and old Beethoven used to drink in the pub outside until midnight, and then went home to drag little Ludwig out of bed and start classes, sometimes until dawn. To make him look like a child prodigy, his father lied about his age. When I was eight, I took him out to a concert when I was six. But there are no child prodigies in the world. Despite a lot of efforts, the old Beethoven never turned his son into another young Mozart. Compared with Mozart, Beethoven's childhood was too unfortunate. Mozart received a good education in his childhood, and his training time was pleasant and quiet. He had a loving father and a beloved sister. Beethoven, on the other hand, won the respect of his hometown people for his performance, but his world-wide travel performance was far less amazing than Mozart's.

Good teacher

The father took the boy from one teacher to another and asked him to learn different musical instruments and the art of composing music. None of these teachers could be called good teachers until he fell into the hands of court pianist and manager of Bonn Theatre. This is a respectable music teacher, a friendly and well-educated young man. This is really a great blessing for Beethoven. Because although Bonn has the best schools-even the kind old Bach would happily send many of his children to study-Beethoven's father never thought it worth sending Beethoven there to study even for two or three months. In his eyes, reading is far less profitable than learning music. For the first time in his life, young Beethoven found class enjoyable. Teacher neffei is very kind to him, not only teaching music, but also teaching him many other things in the world. In order to pay for his tuition, Beethoven took the place of his teacher as an organist when Mr. Niffe was busy or left town. So when he just turned fourteen, he was appointed as an assistant court organist and an ancient pianist in the theater. How proud that hateful and unfortunate father is to see his son's music finally make some money!

visit

Around this time, Beethoven visited Vienna for the first time in his life and played for his favorite idol Mozart. Mozart thought that the child was just playing with an exhibit that had been practiced for such an occasion for a long time, so he had to praise him politely and coldly out of courtesy. Little Beethoven was angry and asked Mozart to give him a theme, and then he improvised on it with so much emotion and genius. Mozart was surprised and immediately ran to the door of the next room. "Pay attention to this young man," he shouted to a group of friends who were having a party inside. "One day the whole world will hear his voice!"

Beethoven finally realized that he could not make greater progress in his hometown, so he decided to try his luck in Vienna again. By this time Mozart had died, but Haydn had just won his first victory in London and was at the peak of his reputation. When passing through Bonn, Haydn once heard a chorus of Beethoven and praised it greatly, so Beethoven decided to turn to Haydn to study first. Haydn has spent his youth. He writes and directs his greatest works more diligently than ever before. No wonder he doesn't have much time and energy to correct the paper. Moreover, he requires students to pay only 20 cents per class, and he probably doesn't think it is necessary to spend too much time practicing manuscript paper. So Beethoven often found some uncorrected mistakes in practice, and he was very angry. When the old teacher went to London for the second time, Beethoven turned to a less talented but strict teacher to study. Later, he often declared loudly that he had learned nothing from Haydn. However, before long, he will gradually feel that if he didn't get anything from the correction exercise, it was that he got inspiration from Haydn because he dedicated his first piano sonata to Haydn. When Haydn appeared on the stage for the last time to perform Genesis, he was helped out by several servants. Beethoven bent down and kissed the weak old man kindly.

Stick to old habits

Beethoven didn't want to be the darling of the living room. He would rather stay in his own residence and be able to get in and out, get up, dress and eat at will. He likes to fiddle with trifles in the room according to his own interests. Once, in order to get some air and see the scenery outside the window, he deliberately cut off a piece of the window. He is always in trouble with the landlords and always walks around. Whenever he creates a climax, he always throws pots of water on his head to cool down until the water soaks through the downstairs room-we can imagine the feelings of the landlord and other tenants! Sometimes he moves so often that he doesn't even want to worry about putting his legs on the piano, but just sits on the floor and plays the piano. Because he has to sign a lease every time he rents a new house, indicating the lease period, he often pays the rent of four apartments at the same time. This is probably the reason why although he earns a lot of money, he always has no savings!

deafen

When he really felt that he was going deaf, he was almost desperate. Life doesn't seem worth living: what is more unfortunate for a musician than not hearing the sweet voice that he likes to listen to and live by? At first, only a few old friends, such as Dr. Wigler and Stephen von Braeuning, knew about his misfortune. He gave up going to the palace to listen to the cheerful concert he liked very much. He was afraid that people would notice his deafness and thought that an deaf musician could not write a good work. Don't! He remembers all the music he wants to write. "I want to hold my destiny by the throat!" "Maybe it's not as difficult for him to create music when he is deaf as other musicians. In his view, music is not only to arrange various themes or sound patterns with charming voices, but also a language to express the deepest thoughts.

Beethoven and his friends

No musician has so many successes and so few happy times in his life. His friends are kind and loyal, but his damn deafness estranged him from them. Even his hearing AIDS often disappoint him, so the only way for him to keep in touch with them is the "talking book" and pencil he always carries with him. He saw them talking to each other and thought they were always talking about him, speaking ill of him and plotting against him. One day he wrote, "Never show your face in front of me again! You are a mean dog, a dishonest guy! " The next day, when he found that his suspicion was wrong and his friend was sincere, he wrote another note: "Dear friend, you are an honest man and you are right. I understand now. So come to me this afternoon and accept your Beethoven love. " And his friends-how good people they are-always forgive his rude quarrel and accompany him to the end. His family life is miserable from beginning to end: he has never been married. When he first arrived in Vienna, he told a singer from his hometown, Magdalena? Willman proposed, but she refused because Beethoven was "so ugly". From then on, he fell in love with several aristocratic women-lovely women with lovely names-and he confided in them with music, but they accepted his music and refused his love!

The legend of moonlight song

"More than one hundred years ago, there was a German musician named Beethoven who wrote many famous songs. Among them, there is a famous piano piece called Moonlight. The legend goes like this: One autumn, Beethoven traveled around the world and performed in a small town on the Rhine. One night, he was walking along a quiet path and heard the intermittent piano sound coming from a small room, playing his music. Beethoven approached the hut, the piano suddenly stopped and someone was talking in the room. A girl said,' How difficult this song is to play! I've only heard others play it several times, but I don't remember how to play it. "If only I could hear how Beethoven played himself!" A man said,' Yes, but tickets for the concert are too expensive, and we are too poor.' The girl quickly said,' Don't be sad, brother, I'm just saying.' Hearing this, Beethoven gently pushed open the door and came in. Candles were lit in the hut, and men were making leather shoes in the dim candlelight. There is an old piano in front of the window, and a girl of sixteen or seventeen is sitting in front of it. Her face is handsome, but she is blind. The shoemaker saw a stranger come in, stood up and asked, "Who are you looking for, sir?" Wrong door, right? Beethoven said,' No, I'm here to play a tune for this girl. The girl quickly stood up and offered her seat. Beethoven sat in front of the piano and played the tune that the blind girl had just played. The blind girl was so absorbed in listening that when the music ended, she said excitedly, "How well you play! How deep the feelings are! You, you must be Mr Beethoven, right? Beethoven didn't answer. He asked the blind girl, "Do you like it?" Let me play another song for you. A gust of wind blew out the candle. The moonlight shone through the window, and everything in the hut seemed to be covered with silver gauze. Beethoven looked at the poor brothers and sisters standing beside him and pressed the keys in the quiet moonlight. The shoemaker listened quietly. He seems to face the sea, and the moon rises from where the water meets the sky. On the surface of the microwave, silver light will be scattered everywhere for a while. The moon rose higher and higher, passing through a wisp of gauze-like Wei Yun. Suddenly, there was a strong wind at sea, which rolled up huge waves. The waves sparkled in the moonlight and rushed to the shore one by one ... The shoemaker looked at his sister, whose eyes were wide open as the moonlight shone on her quiet face. She seemed to see something she had never seen before, the rough sea in the moonlight. Brother and sister were intoxicated by the wonderful piano sound. When they woke up, Beethoven had left the hut. He flew back to the inn and spent the whole night recording Moonlight Music, which he had just improvised. This is an article in the seventh volume of Chinese textbooks for primary schools in China. It tells the story of Beethoven playing Moonlight for blind girls.