Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770 12 16 was born in Bonn, a small town on the Rhine.

Beethoven's father is a tenor in the local choir and a fool who often drinks. His mother is a maid and a poor family.

Beethoven is a typical child prodigy musician. Because of his early wisdom in music, he was compared with the famous musical prodigy Mozart at the age of twelve. His stupid father was eager to take advantage of this to earn fame and fortune, forcing little Beethoven to practice and perform all day, and beating him up if he was slightly unhappy. In Beethoven's memory, he never enjoyed his father's love at all.

God just gave Beethoven a rough appearance and a short and chubby figure-even as an adult, it was only 1.58 meters. His appearance made him laughed at since he was a child, and it was hard for him to escape as an adult.

A poor family, a rude and stupid father, and an unpleasant appearance all constitute Beethoven's unfortunate childhood, forming his rebellious character and strong style in the future, and also causing his vulgar behavior in adulthood. Beethoven was described by many contemporaries as "rude, stubborn and grumpy". As long as he is in a slightly bad mood, he spits everywhere at any time. "

Around the age of twelve, Beethoven met a very good tutor-Jennifer in Bonn. It was Jennifer who broadened Beethoven's artistic vision, made him not hate music in his unhappy childhood, and laid his original musical style, which made him become an organist at the age of thirteen and wrote three sonatas.

1787, Beethoven left for Vienna, the city of music, and met Mozart. Beethoven, who was 17 years old at that time, was unknown, while Mozart was already famous in Europe. Perhaps Beethoven's appearance is so ordinary that even Mozart is ignored and he is not very interested in this young man. He gave a piano improvisation, but went to the next room to chat with others. However, the inspiring and magnificent music in the next room made Mozart run back to the piano involuntarily-as a great musician, Mozart's perception of music was extraordinary. He heard endless creativity and inspiration from the young man's piano, so as soon as he finished playing, Mozart said to the people in the room, "Pay attention to this young man! ..... One day, he will shock the world! "

Then it seemed to be a beautiful story handed down from generation to generation, but nothing happened, because then came the bad news of Beethoven's mother's death. This led to a sad breakup between the two greatest musicians in the history of music and never saw each other again. Four years later, Mozart, a great musician, died young at the age of 35, while Beethoven, 2 1 year-old, was still shouldering the burden of his family in Bonn.

In Beethoven's unfortunate childhood, maternal love may be his only good memory. The loss of his mother at the age of 17 was an extraordinary blow to Beethoven. At the same time, he has to bear this neglected family-two underage brothers and a disappointing father.

In the difficult days, Beethoven only got a little comfort and support in his association with the Browning family. Eleanor Browning is his student, two years younger than him, and Beethoven has tenderness for her. When she later married a kind doctor, Beethoven turned this feeling into an eternal friendship and kept it for a lifetime. Beethoven also found solace in the pastoral scenery-the path full of flowers and trees in Bonn, crossing the magnificent and vast Rhine River, accepted this increasingly melancholy young musician with a broad mind. Beethoven was full of passion for nature all his life, and the broad artistic conception and simple melody in his music directly came from this.

Chapter 2: Settle in Vienna and brew new age music.

1792, Beethoven was sent to Vienna by his late master for further study and settled there permanently.

As an outstanding pianist, Beethoven was warmly welcomed by the upper class in Vienna, and he also studied in Vienna, including the famous composer Haydn. Although Haydn likes Beethoven's talent, he doesn't like his personality very much, because young Beethoven has too much enthusiasm and strange ideas. Meanwhile, Beethoven didn't like Haydn. No wonder Beethoven, who was rebellious, couldn't talk to the humorous and relaxed "Haydn Dad"?

Beethoven's works before 1802 are called Beethoven's first style in the history of music. Most of these works are small in scale, and only piano sonatas Pathetique, Moonlight, violin sonatas Croce and Piano Concerto No.3 are famous. At this time, Beethoven was in the preparatory stage of his creation-in order to observe the great changes in his life at close range, to summarize the musical achievements of18th century and reflect the ever-changing reality, and to choose new creative techniques suitable for his personality, he needed time and energy for intense exploration. This period seems to be a "ten-year wall", which is the brewing period of Beethoven's music creation.

There are external conditions for this brewing-1789, the French Revolution that shocked the world broke out. At that time, Bonn University was the cradle of all kinds of progressive ideas. Beethoven often went to Bonn University to study the great spiritual achievements of mankind since ancient times: from historical documents to philosophy, from Homer and Shakespeare to Schiller and Goethe. In years of study and revolution, Beethoven laid the foundation of his humanistic world view-believing in human equality, pursuing justice and individual freedom.

The French Revolution gave birth to many historical giants, among which Beethoven was an outstanding representative. The French Revolution was like a mountain, which separated Beethoven from two other classical musicians, Haydn and Mozart. It is precisely because he inherited the profound traditions of his predecessors and was nourished by the free atmosphere that Beethoven was able to create another peak with infinite scenery in the history of music.

Chapter Three: Facing the Challenge of Fate

Just as Beethoven was preparing to devote himself to music, fate showed him a ferocious face. From 1796, Beethoven found that his hearing dropped sharply. For a young pianist and musician, hearing loss is tantamount to the end of the world. However, Beethoven waged a tenacious struggle and uttered the famous saying that has been passed down through the ages: "I will seize fate by the throat, and it will never make me yield."

Beethoven still loves a girl named Juliet, and the famous piano sonata Moonlight is dedicated to her. However, the naive and romantic Juliet failed Beethoven's love and later got engaged to a baron.

The cure of deafness is fading, and a beloved lover is lost, which makes the tenacious Beethoven unable to support it. 1802, he wrote the last letter, which is now called Heiligenstadt's suicide note. In the letter, he vividly expressed his innermost ideals and pains. Anyone who misunderstood Beethoven can find the real reason and forgive his shortcomings if he carefully summarizes his will.

However, he rallied again, and his strong personality could not yield to fate. Still in that will, Beethoven said, "It's art, but it's art that makes me, ah! I don't think I can leave this world until I feel that my mission has been completely completed.