Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven, He became a legend in his lifetime, and its presence dominates the whole music of the 19th century. The motto of Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Myself," a rallying cry of supporters from all new movements in the field of writing, painting, and music. Beethoven became the driving force and the idol of the artists Romantic period. With their "valiant man" at the center of the universe, humanism reached its peak at the time of Beethoven and Goethe.
Beethoven believes that artists have a duty to disclose the turmoil once peace with oneself and to look for the perfection of the person. Beethoven's music is full of sharp contrasts. Renoir, French painter, observed that Beethoven was "very disrespectful in the way they express themselves to others; he does not exclude us from heart pain or stomach ache. "
Beethoven's music has an energy emotions that craze. The music was bubbling and contains a huge ecstasy and then suddenly melted into tenderness and sadness, and then re-exploded in the awesomeness. This is a direct outpouring of her personality.
Beethoven was one of the greatest thinkers in the world of music. Beethoven fanatically believe in freedom without limits. Romain Rolland has said, "In him there is superhuman like Nietzsche, long before Nietzsche there."
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770. He began studying music at the age of four years. The young Beethoven are children who do not work according to logical methods, and even as a child he seemed melancholy. But he has musical ambitions and immense physical strength. While still very young, he was hired as organist, although subsequently he was renowned as a person good at playing the piano. In 1787 in Vienna he met and played music for Mozart, who predicted a bright future for him.
There are many women in the life of Beethoven, especially among the nobility. As a historian, "Beethoven always fall in love." A few times she ever consider getting married, but for various reasons he remain single.
Beethoven studied music to Haydn in Vienna, and continue to explore in depth knowledge, although in his opinion a teacher Haydn is not good enough. Haydn must have been too busy to concentrate on teaching, but he did something good for the young musician then unknown. He sent some of the compositions of Beethoven on the Elector of Cologne and encourage young musicians are funded to continue his career as a composer.
Beethoven learned to make compositions like his predecessors before he finally found his own style. Unlike many composers of the 20th century, Beethoven never separated himself from the past. As a child, he had mastered the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, and he respects the music of Handel and Mozart.
In Vienna Beethoven moved to an environment of nobility, and a long line of influential people to help his career even though he was very arrogant and rude. Early in his career, Beethoven is a skilled pianist. In the Second Piano Concerto, the earliest orchestral scores which he considers suitable for publication, the last of which has characteristics that are reminiscent of the music of Mozart and Haydn.
Power diminishing auditory of Beethoven began to occur early in 1798 when he was only 28 years old, forced him to abandon his career as an expert player and devote all his strength to create a composition. The first symptoms of deafness must have been confusing and frightening. He tried a variety of doctors and medicine and is increasingly suspicious of everyone.
At about 1802 to 1816, Beethoven devotes very much creativity. His resolve is not lasting. There was a dark period, but in fourteen years that he composed six symphonies, Coriolan Overture, Fidelio, the last two piano concertos, quartets and piano sonatas by Op. 90, including Appasionata.
In 1817 he was unable to hear at all, but most likely he was still able to "hear" music by feeling the vibration. The burden of deafness helped to focus on what was to become one of the themes in the 19th century, the loneliness that plagued humans.
When Beethoven led the first performance of the 9th Symphony to his work, he can not hear the applause, and someone had turned around so he could see the enthusiasm of the audience. While creativity has increased, he became more withdrawn, even from his friends. Despite his fame spread to all of Europe, Beethoven lived almost like a hermit.
One of the main characteristics of Beethoven's music is the depth of the emotional contents. In Appasionata, he is fully aware that the piano is a percussion instrument. The work ends with a large number trill (varieties of ornamental tone, which is to play a tone by including one tone below the fundamental tone alternately at high speed). Typical is the great contrasts between pianissimo [very soft] and fortissimo. Until the era of Beethoven, mostly music plays rhythm patterns that can be predicted. One of the characteristics of the famous music of Beethoven is the element of surprise.
Beethoven wrote ten violin sonatas, the most famous is the Kreutzer Sonata. Here the violin has a percussive declamation. This work is more famous as Tolstoy wrote a novel called The Kreutzer Sonata that tells the story of a jealous husband who killed his wife.
One opera, Fidelio, which is in the middle ranks of the world's greatest work, giving him a greater difficulty than the other works. Beethoven was a great musician plays, but he rarely write well for vocal music. He ignores the limitations of the human voice and considers the human voice is the only other musical instruments. He often creates music that is not vowel.
Music that brings together the thoughts and emotions that are often more powerful than we can produce. But do not ever listen with indifference and without wisdom.
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