Author: [France] romain rolland
Who's Who includes three biographies: Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy. Also known as The Legend of Three Heroes.
Brief introduction of Beethoven's life: Beethoven was born in a poor family. His father is an opera singer, rude and alcoholic, and his mother is a maid. Beethoven himself was ugly, had a hard life in his childhood and adolescence, and was often scolded by his father. Beethoven1/Kloc-0 joined the theater band at the age of/0/,and became a great organist at the age of 13. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he lost his mother, and he was responsible for the education of his two brothers alone.
10 Beethoven left his hometown Bonn for Vienna, the music city. Soon, pain knocked on the door of his life. Since 1796, Beethoven's ears have been ringing day and night, and his hearing has been declining. At first, he kept this terrible secret alone. 180 1 year, he fell in love with a girl named Julietta, but because of her disability (he was deaf at this time) and Julietta's selfishness and vanity, she married an earl two years later. The double torture of body and spirit is embodied in his fantasy sonata.
1806 In May, Beethoven got engaged to Miss Brunswick, and the beauty of love produced a series of great works. Unfortunately, love abandoned him again, and his fiancee married someone else. However, Beethoven was in the heyday of his creation at this time, and he was carefree about everything. He attracted the attention of the world, and after his glory came the most tragic period: financial distress, the death of relatives and friends, deafness, and communication with people only on paper. Facing the hardships of life, it seems that nothing can make Beethoven yield. He reversed the frivolous style of Vienna at that time with his own creative style.
1827 On March 26th, Beethoven took his last breath on a snowy day.
Biography of Michelangelo: This biography is divided into two parts, the first part is "fighting", the second part is "giving up" and the last part is "death". 1475 On March 6th, Michelangelo was born in Capulli Sai, Santino, where his father was a judge. His mother died when he was six years old, and Michelangelo was adopted by the wife of a stonemason. At the age of thirteen, he entered the studio of domenico Girandayo. It is said that his excellent grades make teachers jealous. A year later, they broke up and Michelangelo transferred to a sculpture school. Soon, due to the conflict of religious beliefs, he left there and went to Venice, Rome and other famous cities, and the level of sculpture continued to improve.
1505 In March, Michelangelo was recruited by Pope Julius II to build a mausoleum for him. Soon, he was invited to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In the following years, he was sent by successive popes to create works that he was not satisfied with with with pain. 1527 Michelangelo was involved in the whirlpool of a revolution and almost died. After the revolution, Pope Clemente found him out of his hiding place again, and Michelangelo had to work for the people he resisted again. Pope Clemente died in September 1537, and Michelangelo thought he could do his own thing quietly from now on. But as soon as he arrived in Rome, he was caught by his new owner, Paul III. It seems that fate doomed him to work for others only in endless interference.
1February 564 12, Michelangelo stood all day, writing a eulogy for Christ. 14 began to have a fever. 18 at 5 pm, this outstanding sculptor and painter finally passed away forever.
Biography of Tolstoy: Tolstoy lost his mother at the age of two and his father at the age of nine. As a teenager, Tolstoy was not only troubled by his own thoughts, but also despaired of his ugly appearance.
185 1 year, Tolstoy came to the Caucasus, and the clear environment surrounded by mountains made his chaotic brain wake up. The following year, he created excellent works such as Childhood, Teenager, Youth and Morning of a Landlord. During the Russian-Turkish War, Tolstoy visited the battlefield personally and was often in danger. Under such circumstances, he still wrote such an exciting work as Chronicle of Sevastopol. Tolstoy in this period was full and happy.
His family life gave him enough time and energy to create masterpieces that shook the whole novel world in the19th century: War and Peace and Anna karenin. However, Tolstoy is distressed: he has status and wealth, but he is often ashamed of his rich life; He sympathizes with the lower classes and lacks confidence in them. So he was tired of his own life, determined to break with his own society, and could not get people's support. Mentally, he has always been lonely. At the age of eighty-two, he chose to run away and died in a small railway station.