Chapter 11 Beethoven-8

"Beethoven asked himself to conduct the last prelude... From the second part of the first act, it is obvious that he did not hear the singing on the stage. He delayed the progress of the music very much; when the orchestra followed his baton , the singers on the stage hurried forward on their own. As a result, the overall situation was in chaos. Often, the band conductor Umlauf proposed to take a break without explaining any reason, and after exchanging a few words with the singers, everyone Start again. The same disorder happened again. I had to rest again. Under Beethoven's command, it is undoubtedly impossible to continue; but how to make him understand? No one has the heart to say to him: "Go away." Poor thing, you can't command anymore." Beethoven became uneasy, and amidst the commotion, he looked around, trying to guess the crux of the problem from different faces: but everyone was silent. He suddenly called me in a commanding tone. I'm going Recently, he handed me the conversation manual, and beckoned me to write it. I wrote: 'I beg you not to continue, and I will tell you the reason when I get back.' So he jumped off the stage; shouted to me: 'Go!' He ran home in one breath; went in, and fell motionless on the couch, holding his face in his hands; he did so until supper, during which he said nothing, and maintained an expression of the deepest anguish. After dinner, when I wanted to say goodbye, he kept me, expressing that he did not want to be alone at home. When we parted, he asked me to accompany me to see a doctor, who is famous for his ear surgery... During my entire friendship with Beethoven There was not a single day in the world that could compare with this fatal day in November. Wounded in the heart, he never forgot the impression of this terrible scene." Schindler and Beethoven since 1814 However, it was not until 1819 that he became his close friend.Beethoven refused to make friends with him easily, and initially expressed arrogance and contempt towards him.

Two years later, on May 7, 1824, when he conducted (or more precisely, as the program notes "involvement in conducting") the Choral Symphony, A was the Ninth Symphony. song".He didn't hear the unanimous colorful sound of the audience at all; he didn't notice it at all, until a female singer took his hand and made him face the crowd, he suddenly saw the audience standing up, waving their hats, and applauding him . — Russell, a British traveler, saw him playing the piano in 1825, and said that when he wanted to express softness, the keys never sounded. Looking at his emotional expression in this silence, his face and fingers twitched Wake up, really touching.

Reclusive in one's own inner life, isolated from the rest of human beings, see Wagner's "Biography of Beethoven", which has a wonderful description of his deafness.He can only find some comfort in nature.Therese Brunswick said: "Nature was his only confidant." It became his refuge.Charlie Nader, who knew him in 1815, said that he had never seen a man who loved flowers, clouds, nature... He seemed to live by nature.He loves animals and has great compassion for them.The mother of the famous historian Frimell said that she could not help harboring a long-standing hatred of Beethoven, who, as a child, drove away the butterflies she was trying to catch with a handkerchief.Beethoven wrote: "There is no one in the world who loves the fields as I do... I love a tree more than a person..." When he was in Vienna, he made a circle along the city wall every day.In the countryside, from dawn to night, he walked alone, without a hat, in the sun and in the wind and rain. "Almighty God!--in these woods, on these hills--a peace, a peace at your service."

His mental turmoil found some solace in nature.His dwelling is never comfortable.During his thirty-five years in Vienna, he moved thirty times.He was worn out with money worries.In 1818 he wrote: "I have almost reached the point of begging, and I have to pretend that daily life is not difficult." In addition, he said: "The sonata No. 106 of the work is in Written in an emergency. It's a pain to work for bread." Spohr said he was often unable to go out because of holes in his boots. A Ludwig Spohr (Ludwing Spohr, 1784-1859), a German violinist and composer at that time.He was heavily indebted to his publisher, and his work was not selling for money. When "Mass in D" was pre-released, there were only seven pre-orders, none of whom were musicians.Beethoven wrote to Cherubini, "for him most esteemed among his contemporaries".But Cherubini ignored it. A According to Caesar, he is an Italian, a French dean of music, a composer, and was very powerful in the music industry at that time.All his beautiful sonatas—each of which cost him three months of work—earned him only thirty or forty dugas. A According to Beethoven's piano sonatas, there are as many as thirty-two pieces listed in the complete works.The quartet that Prince Galitin asked him to produce (Op. 127, 130, 132), perhaps the most profound of his works, seemed to be written in blood and tears, but he never got a penny.What consumed Beethoven was the daily embarrassment, the endless lawsuits: whether to fulfill the promise of allowances, or to fight for the custody of his nephew, because his brother Karl died in 1815. Lung disease, leaving behind a son.