Born in Bonn in 177, his ancestral home is Flanders

Beethoven's life introduction

"Do your best to be good, love freedom more than anything else,

Even for the throne, don't forget the truth." -Beethoven (Notes in 1729)

Rudevik van Beethoven (177-1827) was a great German composer and one of the representatives of the Viennese classical music school, which played a decisive role in the development of world music and was honored as "Le Sheng". Beethoven was born on December 16th, 177 in Bonn, a small town near France on the Rhine. He comes from the Flemish family, a musical family. His grandfather's name is Lutvik, and he is the music director of the Bonn Court Orchestra. His father is a court tenor. His mother is a maid and the daughter of a cook. Beethoven showed his musical genius at an early age. His father was eager to train him to be a prodigy like Mozart. He was forced to learn piano and violin at an early age. At the age of eight, he began to perform in concerts and tried to compose music. However, his music education during this period has been very messy and unsystematic.

at the age of twelve, he was able to play freely and worked as an assistant to the organist Nie Fei (1748-1798). At this time, he began to formally learn music from Nie Fei. Nie Fei is a musician with many talents. He broadened Beethoven's artistic horizons, familiarized him with some excellent examples of German classical art, and consolidated Beethoven's understanding of lofty goals. Beethoven's formal study and systematic upbringing actually began with Nie Fei's careful teaching and training: Nie Fei also led him to teach Mozart in Vienna in 1787. After listening to his performance, Mozart predicted that Beethoven would shake the world one day. Beethoven received the news of his mother's death soon after he arrived in Vienna, and he had to rush back to Bonn at once. Due to the drag of his family, he didn't come to Vienna for the second time until his father died in the autumn of 1792, but Mozart was no longer alive. After Beethoven came to Vienna for the second time, he quickly won the title of the most outstanding performer in Vienna (especially improvisation). After that, he studied with Haydn first, and then with Schenk, Abliesberg and Salieri. He got in touch with many famous professors, writers and musicians at that time through his contacts with the intellectual Breinin in Bonn, and was influenced by the ideological trend of "hurricane movement" from them. His democratic thought had matured a few years before the French Revolution, but it grew rapidly in the revolutionary years.

The ideology of the French bourgeois revolution and progress in 1789 inspired him a lot, which laid the curtain on his humanistic world. He believed in human equality, pursued justice and individual freedom, and hated the oppression of feudal autocracy. Although the three famous composers in Vienna Classical Music School lived in similar times, Beethoven's thoughts obviously did not belong to the same "era" as Haydn and Mozart. Haydn was humiliated all his life. Although he was occasionally provoked, he always resigned himself. At that time, progressive literary thoughts and revolutionary emotions rarely excited him, and his music was always insulated from struggle. Mozart's mental suffering is not less than Haydn's. He is brave in resisting, preferring poverty rather than enduring the insult of the archbishop. However, in his music, from behind the joy full of sunshine and youthful vitality, a trace of pain, melancholy and sadness can often be felt. Only Beethoven, who not only angrily opposed the autocratic feudal system, but also used his music to call on people to fight for freedom and happiness. Beethoven's creations in Bonn (1782-1792) were mostly small piano pieces, ensembles and songs, etc. It can be said that he was still in the preparatory stage of creation during this period. During his first ten years in Vienna (1792-182), his only famous works were Sorrow, Moonlight, Croce Sonata and Piano Concerto No.3, etc. However, during this period, he had a further understanding of social and political issues, and he could also realize the goals he was trying to explore. From 182 to 1812, his creation entered a mature period, which later became his "heroic age".

On the surface, the mature process of Beethoven's creative activities is quite slow, but in fact it is very stable. He didn't write his first symphony until he was thirty, but Mozart had written about forty symphonies at this age.

Beethoven's life was very bumpy. From the age of 26 in 1796, he began to feel increasingly weak in hearing and became deaf in his later years. It was not until 181 that he was convinced that his ear disease was incurable that he told his friends about it. However, his love for art and life overcame his personal pain and despair-suffering became the source of his creative power. At the peak of such a spiritual crisis, Beethoven overcame many difficulties with strong will and began to write his optimistic "Hero Symphony". The Heroic Symphony marks the turning point of Beethoven's spirit and the beginning of his heroic era.

In the latter stage of his stay in Vienna, Beethoven's works were temporarily in decline (1813-1817) because Europe was experiencing a serious period of political reaction, that is, the period when metternich's reactionary rule was particularly rampant. From 1818, in the last ten years of Beethoven's life (1818-1827), he wrote the Ninth Symphony with giant perseverance, summed up his brilliant and epic life and showed the good wishes of mankind.

Beethoven died in Vienna on March 26th, 1827. No one was with him when he died, but when he was buried on the 29th of the same month, a mass wave formed. All schools were closed to express their condolences, and 2, people escorted his coffin shaft. His tombstone was engraved with the inscription of the Austrian poet Glier Bache (1791-1872): "When you stand in front of his coffin, it's not depression that hangs over you. We can only say to such a person as him that he has accomplished great things ... "

Beethoven is one of the great composers in the art history of the world. His creation embodies his giant personality and reflects the progressive thought of that era. His revolutionary heroic image can be described as "through suffering-towards joy; Through struggle-win ". His works are magnificent, simple and distinctive, with rich music content and easy to be understood and accepted by the audience. Beethoven's music embodies the pain, joy, struggle and victory of the people in his time, so it always inspired people in the past and inspired their fighting spirit, and even now it makes people feel kind and inspired.

Beethoven's works include Moonlight, Ninth Symphony, First Symphony, Sonata, Symphony of Destiny, Solemn Mass, etc. These are beautiful movements that break away from classicism and show freedom and enthusiasm.

About Beethoven's text: "Moonlight Song", lesson 26, Group 8, experimental teaching book of compulsory education curriculum standard. Main idea of the text: It is about one night when Beethoven went to a small town on the Rhine River. When Beethoven was walking on the road, he heard the sound of a piano coming from a hut. After Beethoven entered, he saw a shoemaker making shoes. A blind girl in front of the window was at the piano. In their conversation, Beethoven heard that the blind girl wanted to listen to him play the piano, but he didn't have the money to go to the concert hall. When Beethoven heard this, he went forward and played the song that the blind girl had just played. When the song was finished, the blind girl admired it. When the blind girl asked him if he was Beethoven, Beethoven didn't answer, saying that he wanted to play another song. Beethoven improvised and popped up a Moonlight Song. When the shoemaker and the blind girl woke up with rapt attention, Beethoven had already returned to the inn. He spent the whole night composing the Moonlight Song that he had just played. What a beautiful text this is, especially the one describing the moonlight song, which shines the moonlight on the water ... It's really elegant and beautiful!

[ Edit this paragraph] Creative career

His grandfather was originally from the Netherlands, and after moving to Germany, he was a local court musician. My father is a tenor and my mother is the daughter of the court chef.

Beethoven grew up in a period of "enlightened autocracy" in Joseph II, and the rulers in Bonn also implemented some improvement measures. Bonn became one of the centers of the German Enlightenment at that time.

Beethoven began her struggle with fate as soon as she was born. My father wants to develop his musical talent and always shows him off as a child prodigy. At the age of four, his father made him sit in front of the dulcimer (a musical instrument similar to the piano in form and organization, a keyboard instrument before the piano appeared) all day, or shut him in a room with a violin. Father always forces him to study by violence. At the age of eleven, Beethoven joined the theater band. At the age of thirteen, he became a great organist. It is very lucky that he finally doesn't hate music.

Since 1781, while working in the theater, Beethoven studied Bach's Piano Music with Equal Rhythm and composition method with the orchestra conductor Naif.

Naive is a composer and conductor who is very cultivated and inclined to the Enlightenment. He has contributed to the development of German national operas and oratorios.

By learning from this teacher, Beethoven realized the importance of learning German folk music traditions, and under the guidance of Naive, he also accepted the influence of the Enlightenment.

He took a keen interest in German progressive literature at that time.

Beethoven's skillful skills as a pianist left a deep impression on everyone. He is not only a successful performer, but also an excellent teacher.

he soon became a prolific composer. His works are so popular that he can easily sell them to publishers when he is in his mid-twenties.

Beethoven had a premonition of deafness when he was nearly 3 years old. It is conceivable that the young composer was nervous about this ominous sign. At that time, he thought of suicide.

Beethoven wrote a lot of music works continuously. But with the passage of time, he paid less and less attention to the music that the music audience liked at that time. But he kept succeeding.

Beethoven was completely deaf when he was nearly 5 years old. As a result, he stopped performing on stage and even became more lonely and eccentric. He is not as prolific as before, and his works give people a sense of bow and scrape. At that time, he mainly composed music for himself and some ideal future audiences. It is said that he once told a critic that his works were "not for you but for the future generation".

If the most talented composer beyond time and space has suffered from deafness, it is better to say that it is the most ruthless mockery of fate; If Beethoven ignored the pain of deafness and continued to ensure the quality of his works with superhuman perseverance, then this is an inspiring and almost unbelievable achievement. But the fact is even more unexpected than imagined: in fact, Beethoven wrote music beyond the level of his early works during his completely deaf years. It is generally believed that the works he created in his later years are the greatest masterpieces of his life. He died in Vienna in 1827 at the age of 57.

Beethoven wrote a lot of works, including nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, five piano concertos, ten piano and violin sonatas, a series of string quartets, vocal music, drama music and many other music. But compared with the quantity of his numerous music, the quality is more important. His works organically combine perfect imagination with unrestrained feelings. Beethoven touched people's heartstrings with his own performance, and they no longer thought instrumental music was a secondary art.

Beethoven is a creative composer, and many of the changes he brought to music have produced immortal effects. He expanded the size of the orchestra, increased the length of symphonies and expanded their fields. He proved that the piano has a wide range of uses and contributed to making it a first-class musical instrument. Beethoven represents the change of music from classical to romantic. His works inspire many romantic music.

Beethoven had a great influence on many later composers, including people with different styles, such as Brahms, Wagner, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. He also paved the way for Berlioz, Gustav, Mahler, Strauss and many others.

It seems obvious that Beethoven should rank first among any other composers in this volume. Although johann sebastian bach is almost as famous as him, Beethoven's music has a wider range and a larger audience than Bach's, and Beethoven's many innovations have a more profound impact on the later music development than Bach's works.

Generally speaking, it is easier and clearer to express political thoughts and moral thoughts in language than in music, so literature is an art field with more influence than music. It is for this reason that although Beethoven is the most outstanding figure in the history of music, he ranks lower than Shakespeare (very wrong, music is the highest form of art! Music is invisible and only exists in time. All art forms tend to develop in the form of music. In a sense, music has surpassed all art forms. When comparing Beethoven and Michelangelo, I was deeply influenced by the fact that most people spend more time listening to music than watching paintings and statues. Therefore, I think that generally speaking, music composers have greater influence than painters and sculptors, if they both enjoy the same reputation in their respective fields. In a word, it seems more appropriate to rank Beethoven between Shakespeare and Michelangelo in general.

Beethoven's symphony is the best of the best symphonies. The structure of the Third Symphony is the most rigorous and complex, the fifth Symphony is the most profound in thought, and the ninth Symphony is the most magnificent in momentum and scale, which also points out the direction of music development for future generations. Focusing on the heroes who express the revolutionary struggle, he put the theme of heroes in the first place in his symphony creation. From Beethoven's Symphony No.3, Symphony No.5, Symphony No.6, Symphony No.7 and Symphony No.9, we can see that these works depict the hero's activities and thoughts, hero and revolutionary struggle, hero and nature, hero and people, hero and victory, hero and his inner world, etc. from different aspects. These heroic tones shape the hero.

Beethoven's symphonies are mostly in the form of extended sonatas, and his creative ideas are broad and magnificent.