Chapter 9 Beethoven-6

This deep peace did not last; but the sweet influence of love survived till 1810.No doubt it was through this influence that Beethoven acquired his own power and brought his genius to its fullest fruit, as in the classical tragedy: the Fifth Symphony; --the dream of the summer gods: the Pastoral Symphony. Song" (1808).The composition of Goethe's play "Egmont" to music began in 1809.He also wanted to make music for "William Tell," but other composers were preferred.There is also what he thinks is the most powerful of his sonatas, which was inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; "Sonata of Passion" (1807), which he dedicated to Therese.See Beethoven and Schindler's talk.Schindler asked Beethoven: "What is the content of your D minor sonata and F minor sonata?" Beethoven replied: "Please read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"!" The alias "Sonata for the Tempest" (minor, Op. 31 No. 2) comes from this. "Second D Thirteen Piano Sonata" (minor, work No. 57) is also known as "Passionate Sonata", which was added by the publisher F Kranz. This sonata was created from 1804 to 1805. , published in 1807, Beethoven dedicated this sonata to Trese's brother, Count Franz von Brunswick.The dreamy and mysterious Sonata (1809), No. 78, is also dedicated to Trese.An undated letter to the "Immortal Beloved" expresses no less fervor of his love than in the "Sonata of Passion": "My angel, my all, my I . . . I can't tell you enough...Ah! You are always with me wherever I am...I weep when I think that you didn't hear from me before Sunday.—I love you as you Love me as much as you love me, but much more... O God! Running to you, sometimes joyful, then sad, asking fate if it will ever accept our wishes.—I can only live with you, otherwise I cannot live...never Own my heart again. Forever! 洛咕—Oh, God! Why do people separate when they love each other? But my life is a miserable life. Your love has made me the happiest and the happiest at the same time —be quiet...be quiet—love me!—oh! love me on,—never misunderstand your dear L's heart.—forever yours—forever mine— —is ours forever." See Letters XV.

What mysterious reason hinders the happiness of this pair of lovers? —Maybe it’s because of lack of property, the difference in status.Perhaps Beethoven rebelled against the humiliation of being asked to wait for a long time and to keep this love secret. Perhaps with his violent, violent and cynical temperament, he invisibly caused his lover to suffer, and he himself felt hopeless because of it. --The engagement was broken; yet neither of them seemed to have forgotten the love.To the last moment of her life, Therese ter Brunswick loved Beethoven.She died in 1861. A According to her, she lived thirty-four years longer than Beethoven.

In 1816, Beethoven said: "When I think of her, my heart still beats as violently as when I saw her on the first day." Song.He wrote in his notes: "As soon as I saw this wonderful creation, my mood flooded, but she is not here, not beside me!" - Therese once gave her portrait to Beethoven, Inscribed: "To rare geniuses, great artists, good people..." This portrait of TB is still in Beethoven's house in Bonn.In Beethoven's later years, a friend accidentally caught him embracing the portrait alone, crying, and talking aloud to himself (this was his habit): "You are so beautiful, so great, and angels Same!" The friend withdrew and went in after a while, saw him playing the piano, and said to him: "Today, my friend, there is no fear on your face." Beethoven replied: "Because My good angel has come to visit me." - Trauma deeply etched on his heart.He himself said: "Poor Beethoven, there is no happiness for you in this world. Only in the ideal realm can you find your friends." Letter to Greichenstein.Letters Collection Thirty-first.

He wrote again in his notes: "surrender, surrender deeply to your destiny: you can no longer exist for yourself, but for others; for you, only in your art Happiness. Oh God! Give me the courage to conquer myself!" Love abandoned him.In 1810 he was alone again; but the glory had come, and he clearly felt his power.He is in his prime. According to A, Beethoven was forty years old at this time.He completely indulged his violent and rough temperament, and had no scruples about society, customs, and the opinions of others.What else does he need to be cautious about and perfunctory?Love, gone; ambition, gone.All that remains is power, the joy of power, the need to apply it, and even abuse it. "Force, that's the spirit of a man who is different from the common man! He repeats his slovenliness, and his behavior grows more insolent. He knows he has a right to say what he wants, even to the greatest men in the world." Besides kindness, I do not admit that there is any sign of superiority", this is what he wrote on July 17, 1812. He wrote to GD. Lerio and said again: "The heart is all great starting point. "Letter Collection 108. Bettina Brentano saw him at that time and said, "No emperor has such a strong sense of his own strength." Beethoven fell in love with each other; so Bei tried his best to pursue Goethe as an adult. Bei had great admiration for Beethoven and had a great understanding of Beethoven's music. Bei's brother Clemens (1778-1892) was one of the leaders of the German Romantic School. Bei's husband Aning Also a famous poet. She was overwhelmed by his power and wrote to Goethe: "When I saw him for the first time, the whole world disappeared in front of me. Beethoven made me forget the world and even you, oh , Goethe! Axillary leaf saliva zazai 飧 飧 飧 飧勈 Song engraved on the pocket and 咴 know how to stick  take the fashion    Ants chaotic hope art 饩 浠 Ba send Huai Miao copy! ? According to Bettina wrote this letter, about 1808, not yet twenty-nine years old.At this time, Beethoven was under forty years old, and Goethe was the oldest, about sixty years old.

Goethe tried to get to know Beethoven.In 1812 they finally met at the Bohemian baths of Tepliz, and the result was not very speculative.Beethoven enthusiastically admired Goethe's genius; on February 19, 1811, he wrote to Bettina: "Goethe's poems make me happy." He also said in his letter: "Goethe and Schiller are my favorite poets besides Ossian and Homer." - It is worth noting that although Beethoven's childhood education was incomplete, his literary taste was very good. high.Apart from Goethe who he considers "great, majestic, and in D minor" but considered higher than Goethe, there are only Homer, Plutarch, and Shakespeare.Among Homer's works, he loves "The Odyssey" most.The German translation of Shakespeare was always at his hand, and we know how tragically Shakespeare's Coriolan and The Tempest are musically represented by him.As for Plutarch, he was as deeply influenced as any man in the age of the Revolution.The ancient Roman hero Brutus is his hero, and in this he is similar to Michelangelo.He loved Plato and dreamed of a Platonic republic all over the world.In his conversation book from 1819 to 200, he once said: "Socrates and Jesus are my models." But his character was too free and too violent to blend with Goethe's character, and he was inevitably hurt it.He told how they walked together when the proud republican was made the Privy Councilor of the Grand Duke of Weimar. A taught Goethe a lesson according to Goethe's official title, so that Goethe could never forgive him.

"Kings and ministers can make professors and confidential counselors, and give them titles and decorations; but they can't make great people, they can't make a soul that transcends vulgar society; . . . and when two people like me and Goethe are together When we are together, such princes and nobles should feel our greatness.——Yesterday, we met all the royal family on the way home. A refers to the Austrian royal family, and Tepliz was a summer resort at that time, where princes and nobles from various countries in Central Europe gathered. We saw it from a distance. Goethe broke free from my arms and stood by the road. I said all I had to him in vain, but I couldn't make him take another step. So I pushed my hat and buttoned my coat The son, with his hands behind his back, ran into the densest crowd. The prince and his courtiers were densely packed; the prince Rudolph A was a piano student of Beethoven who took off his hat to me; the queen greeted me first. ——Those adults and gentlemen know me - just for fun, I watched the procession pass before Goethe. He stood on the side of the road, stooped deeply, hat in his hand. I'm not polite to him..." Above, see Beethoven's letter to Bettina.Although the authenticity of these letters is doubtful, they are generally accurate.

And Goethe did not forget.Goethe wrote to Zelter: "Beethoven was unfortunately a very stubborn man; he was undoubtedly right to think the world was abominable; but this did not make the world more pleasant to him and to others. We must forgive He, feel sorry for him, because he is deaf." Goethe never did anything against Beethoven in his life, but he never did anything in support of Beethoven; he was absolutely silent about his works and even about his surname.Deep down he admires and fears his music: it makes him riot.He was afraid that it would cause him to lose his spiritual balance, which Goethe paid for with so much pain. ——The young Mendelssohn, who passed through Weimar in 1830, left a letter saying that he had indeed penetrated into the depths of Goethe's self-proclaimed "turbulent and ardent soul", which was used by Goethe Powerful intellect suppresses.Mendelssohn said in the letter: "... He was reluctant to hear people mention Beethoven at first; Great work,) he heard the first movement of the Fifth Symphony. He tried to pretend to be calm and said to me: 'It's not touching, but it's amazing'. After a while, He also said: "This is huge—According to Goethe's original word is Grandiose, which contains ambiguous meanings of greatness or exaggeration, and it is hard to guess what he is praising here (if he means "great")." Or pejorative (if he meant 'exaggerated')—presumptuous enough to say the house shook.' Then came supper, during which he was in a trance, brooding, until we brought up Beethoven again, He began to question me, to test me. I clearly saw that Beethoven's music had already taken effect..." According to Zelt, as a mediocre musician, he strongly opposed Beethoven in his early years, until he met Beethoven later, I was greatly moved by his personality, and changed from the previous abusive tone of his music to enthusiastic praise.Ce was a lifelong friend of Goethe. Goethe's early impression of Beethoven was mostly influenced by Ce's misunderstanding.Romain Rolland also wrote "Goethe and Beethoven", 1930 edition.

The Seventh Symphony and the Eighth Symphony are works of this period, that is to say, were written in Tepliz in 1812: the former is a rhythmic sacristy, the latter a playful symphony, Of these two works he is perhaps most at home, most "as much as he can," as he himself puts it, the joyful and frenzied excitement, the unexpected contrasts, the startlingly exaggerated wit, the giant, Goethe and Zelt's outburst of panic, see Zelt's letter to Goethe on September 2, 1812, and Goethe's letter to Zelt on September 14 of the same year: "Yes, I also used surprise I admire him." In 1819, Zelt wrote to Goethe: "He is said to be crazy." It made a popular saying in northern Germany that the "Seventh Symphony" was the work of an alcoholic. . — yes, the work of an intoxicated man, but also the product of force and genius.

He himself said: "I am the Dionysus who brews mellow wine for mankind. It is I who give people the highest spiritual enthusiasm." I wonder if he really wanted to describe a Dionysian celebration in the finale of the Seventh Symphony, as Wagner said.This is at least a subject that Beethoven thought about, because he mentioned it in his notes, especially in his plans for the Tenth Symphony.In this majestic country festival music, I especially see his Flemish heritage; likewise, in a country where discipline and obedience are the most important, his unscrupulous behavior and speech are also derived from his own blood.No matter in any work, it is not as frank and free as the "Seventh Symphony".It is the joy of a river overflowing with the aimless waste of superhuman energies for entertainment alone.In the "Eighth Symphony", the power is not exaggerated like this, but it is more peculiar and shows the characteristics of the author, blending tragedy and comedy, strength like a strongman and willfulness like a child.At the same time as writing these works, he met a young Berlin singer in Tepliz in 1811-12, and had a rather tender friendship with her, which may have influenced these works.

1814 was the culmination of Beethoven's luck.At the Congress of Vienna, people saw him as the glory of Europa.He was very active in the celebration.The princes saluted him, and as he himself proudly told Schindler, he let them run after him. He was inspired by the Revolutionary War.The one who differed greatly from Beethoven in this matter was Schubert's father, who wrote a timely piece of music in 1807, "Dedicated to Napoleon the Great", and personally conducted it in front of Napoleon.According to Napoleon's defeat in Russia in 1812, the Austrians raised their troops to discuss the law in 1813, and soon Prussia followed suit. This is what historians call the War of Independence, also known as the War of Liberation.In 1813, he wrote "Wellington's Victory Symphony"; at the beginning of 1814, he wrote a soldier's chorus: "Rebirth of Germany"; On the 19th, he conducted a patriotic song in front of many monarchs: "The Time of Glory"; in 1815, he fought for the capture of Paris. A means that in March 1814, the Allied forces of the Austro-German Confederates invaded Paris and wrote a chorus: "You're Done".These timely compositions added to his reputation more than any other music.The woodcut made by Blaise Heffer based on the sketches of François Letron and the face (Masque) sculpted by Franz Klein in 1813 vividly represent Bedeaux. Finn's face at the Vienna Conference.His lion-like face, with clenched jaws, is lined with furrows and anguish, but the most obvious character is his will, the will of Napoleon in his early years: "It's a pity that I am not so good in war as I am in music." Expert! Otherwise, I will defeat him!"

But his kingdom is not here, as he wrote to François de Brunswick: "My kingdom is in the sky." He wrote to Cauca at the Congress of Vienna: "I will not speak to you of our kings and kingdoms, but the kingdom of ideas seems to me the loveliest of all nations: it is the first of all kingdoms in this world and in the next." After this glorious time came the most miserable period.