Brief introduction of Beethoven's life

Cherny is Liszt's teacher. I'm sure all his friends in the mathematics department who studied piano must have played his etudes, but this music educator, like other children who studied piano, was once a nervous student.

Cherny, 180 1 year 10-year-old Cherny, led by his father, is going to attend an interview for an apprentice as a musician. The musician became famous in Vienna recently. However, some people praised him and others belittled him. Some people say that he dares to challenge authority and represents the future of music. Others say that he is rude, which is simply grandstanding. Anyway, Cherny, who was only ten years old at that time, was a big fan of this musician, so Cherny was very eager to learn piano from this musician.

However, this musician is not very keen on teaching students, and his main energy is on composing music, so he is very strict with students, because it is not to make money, but mainly to see fate. Only children who he thinks have musical talent are willing to teach. In order to successfully pass the interview of musicians, Cherny carefully practiced his latest interview work: his piano sonata No.23, also known as "passion sonata".

Cherny and his father came to his idol's residence. They were very nervous and excited. They were received by a disheveled servant. Musicians live on the sixth floor. Cherny climbed the stairs, listened to the creaking of the old wooden floor under his feet, and silently recalled the score of the Passion Sonata. Finally, he climbed to the sixth floor. The furnishings in this room are very simple, with paper and clothes everywhere. It's a mess anyway. Cherny's idol, musician, is sitting in this rickety chair. He is wearing a fluffy dark gray jacket and fluffy dark gray pants. The man's hair is very hard and long, almost standing on his head one by one, and his beard has not been shaved for a long time, which makes his already gloomy face look even more gloomy.

Moreover, this person's ear is still stuffed with a dirty cotton ball, and the white cotton ball is stained with yellow liquid that I don't know what it is. In short, it is rude and sloppy. Musicians are not tall, even a little short, but their limbs are thick. He stood up and waved wildly, indicating that Cherny could sit in a chair and play the piano for him.

Beethoven at work

I think in this environment, I'm afraid all the children will be nervous, so Cherny's father asked him to sit down slowly to calm his nervous mood a little, and then Cherny began to play the Sonata of Passion, which we are listening to now.

For Cherny, time passed slowly, but it seemed to pass quickly. Before he came to his senses after playing a song, he heard the man say to his father, "This child is very talented and I am willing to teach him." This man is Beethoven, the protagonist of our story, and Cherny is one of his most proud students.

Beethoven just described a sloppy and rude image, but rudeness definitely does not mean stupidity. Under this appearance, Beethoven is a person with high emotional intelligence and IQ. Many scholars worship Beethoven, including Roman Roland, and discuss Beethoven's infinite idealization and perfection as an idol, but this noble sentiment and desire are beautiful, and Beethoven does have the characteristics described by Roman Roland in his biography.

But this is only one aspect of Beethoven's life. Beethoven not only advocates freedom and self-esteem, but also has his secular side. He has been wandering between secularism and self-esteem all his life. His pride is the source of his creative inspiration, and almost all his best works were completed when he chose self-esteem. When he chose secularism, he also created many bad works. Although these works are not liked by people now, these music won him very rich practical benefits at that time.

I think every great artist may have the same contradiction under the temptation of interests, that is, whether to stick to what he wants to create or compromise a little to get something that is not so artistic but can fill his stomach. As Beethoven himself said, "Personality is the foundation of all good things. If there is no personality, there will be no real art. "

However, it is also difficult to stick to individuality. For example, Beethoven's music inspires those who are in trouble. These people regard Beethoven as a spiritual mentor, and their economic strength has never been able to support Beethoven. The nobles like music that is suitable for court performance and relatively more "elegant", which is contradictory to Beethoven's creation. It is impossible to express what he really wants to express to meet the needs of the nobility, so Beethoven has been like this all his life.

The Passion Sonata played by Cherny in the interview is the product of Beethoven's struggle. Beethoven had just arrived in Vienna when he wrote this piece of music. If it were you, a foreign musician under the age of 30, you would definitely know what the so-called predecessors in the local area were like first, and you wouldn't easily come up with a work that was particularly contrasted with the music environment at that time, but Beethoven didn't care. He is like romain rolland's john christopher.

He felt that the music environment in Vienna was full of decadent atmosphere. When he first arrived in Vienna, Haydn gave him a lot of guidance in music creation, but there was a huge contrast between their ideas. Haydn often gave Beethoven advice, and even warned Beethoven to follow the tradition and not to join too many personal tricks. But Beethoven wouldn't listen.

Of course, if he had listened, there would not have been the third symphony, the fifth symphony and so on, which made Beethoven's great works. Moreover, Beethoven not only refused to listen to Haydn's opinion, but also vehemently refuted Haydn, and even publicly claimed that he had not learned anything from Haydn. Of course, this is not objective, but it is such a figure that makes Beethoven's music have a unique content. He dares to express his views and wants to express them loudly. Now that you have said it, you must say it incisively and vividly.