Why Beethoven? Why do so many people recommend reading "The Biography of Beethoven"? What can Beethoven bring to us?

The translator of "Beethoven's Biography", Mr. Fu Lei, re-translated this book in 1942. What Mr. Fu wants to bring to us can be seen from the year 1942. .

In 1942, China was experiencing a series of troubles, the Japanese army was carrying out a large-scale suppression campaign, and the Kuomintang was rampantly corrupt. The war of resistance entered the late stage of an extremely difficult stalemate. So Fu Lei deliberately translated "Three Biography of Giants" into Chinese, introducing the "bravery and wisdom" of the great people and sweeping away the "gloom over China".

"The Biography of Beethoven" is the first part of "Three Biography of the Giant". Fu Lei said, "Only by holding the spirit of 'If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell', can we save a depressed and selfish nation: This is the lesson I learned when I first read this book fifteen years ago... moderation, modesty, pettiness Little wisdom is our fatal wound: this is my belief that has grown day by day over the past fifteen years."

Romain Rolland, the author of the original book, said in the preface, "In 1902, I experienced a turbulent period. I fled Paris and came to my childhood partner, who had supported me many times on the battlefield of life. Beethoven, looking for ten days of rest."

Dr. Wu Jun also said that when he suffered a serious illness when he was young and was particularly depressed, "The Biography of Beethoven" gave him great encouragement and helped him get out of that period of depression.

So what is the charm of Beethoven that inspires and nourishes so many people?

Let’s first introduce Beethoven’s life experience. Beethoven’s father was a mediocre tenor singer who was addicted to alcohol, and his mother was the daughter of a palace chef. Beethoven's childhood was unhappy. His father often dragged him to the keyboard to practice for many hours, and slapped him every time he made a mistake.

Using current popular words, Beethoven’s native family is very bad. So did Beethoven need to often complain about his family of origin?

Let’s take a look at Beethoven’s marriage.

Beethoven once fell in love with Count Giulietta Guicciardini, but Guicciardini was coquettish, childish, and selfish, which troubled Beethoven, and she finally married Galen. Count Berg.

When he was nearly 40 years old, Beethoven fell in love with Theresa Te Braunschweig, who had a crush on him. I planned to confess my love to him at a banquet, but unfortunately Beethoven got drunk. Not only did he forget to propose, but he also wrote the wrong name on the cover of the music manuscript he gave to his sweetheart, and the two failed to get together in the end.

Moreover, Beethoven was thin and suffered from not only pneumonia, stones, typhoid and other diseases, but also serious intestinal diseases. What's even more frightening is that as a musician, his hearing began to decline at twenty-six. Although treated by doctors, he did not get better and became worse day by day, and finally became completely deaf.

A musician's deafness is like a painter's blindness, and a basketball player's loss of his arm shows how much of a blow it had to Beethoven. Beethoven said in his heart to his friend, "You poor Beethoven, I am in unbearable pain. Plutarch taught me patience. Forbearance. What a sad refuge! However, this is my only way out." He also wrote "Surrender, surrender deeply to your destiny."

But, like Beethoven's famous saying - I want to hold the throat of fate, it wants to make me surrender. This is absolutely impossible!

When Beethoven composed music, it is said that he used a small wooden pole, one end inserted into the piano case, and the other end held between his teeth so that he could hear the music while composing.

What kind of spirit is this? What difficulties cannot be solved with this spirit?

Beethoven wrote "Moonlight" for the blind girl, strangled the throat of fate and wrote the "Destiny" symphony, wrote the "Eroica" symphony for Napoleon, and so on. Today, "Ode to Joy" is used as the song of the European Union, symbolizing European freedom, peace, and unity.

Beethoven's famous saying, "I want to hold fate by the throat, it wants to make me surrender. This is absolutely impossible" has been widely sung and inspired generations of people. Romain Rolland said, "I hope that unfortunate people can comfort themselves by seeing a victim who is equally unfortunate as him, regardless of natural obstacles, trying his best to become a person worthy of being a human being."

There is a scene in the American TV series "Yellowstone" where the heroine tells a high school student who dropped out of school that you will go to jail sooner or later because you don't mind dropping out of school and because you have no one to look up to. You can't find anyone to be your role model.

Yes, that’s right, a role model. Beethoven is our role model. It turns out that I am not alone in this world. I can also walk the path those people have walked. The soul is the driving force that guides life upward, and the source of power lies in the deep-seated stories left for us by our predecessors. Thinking and higher dimensional wisdom.

Pay tribute to Beethoven and the great men!