Ludwig van Beethoven - a genius composer who did not hear a sound

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

March 26 - Memorial Day of the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven … Many considered his music to be gloomy and gloomy, since it did not fit with the trends fashionable at that time. But no one could dispute the composer's genius. Moreover, Beethoven was so talented that he composed his works even when he was completely deaf.

When the future composer was three years old, because of pranks and disobedience, his father locked him in a room with a harpsichord. However, Beethoven did not beat the instrument in protest, but sat down at it and enthusiastically improvised with both hands. Once his father noticed this and decided that little Ludwig could become the second Mozart. This was followed by diligent violin and harpsichord lessons.

Due to the current difficult situation in the family (his father suffered from alcoholism), Ludwig van Beethoven had to leave school and go to work. It is this fact that is associated with his inability to add and multiply numbers. Many contemporaries laughed at the composer for this. But Beethoven was by no means an ignoramus. He read all kinds of literature, loved Schiller and Goethe, knew several languages. Perhaps the genius had just a humanitarian mindset.

Ludwig van Beethoven quickly achieved fame and recognition. Despite his disheveled and sullen appearance, unbearable character, contemporaries could not fail to note his talent. But in 1796, the worst thing that can happen to a composer happens to Beethoven - he hears ringing in his ears and begins to go deaf. He develops an inflammation of the inner ear - tinnitus. Doctors attribute this illness to Beethoven's habit of dipping his head in ice-cold water every time he sat down to write. At the insistence of the doctors, the composer moved to the quiet town of Heiligenstadt, but this did not make him feel better.

It was then that the most brilliant works of the composer appeared. Beethoven himself will call this period "heroic" in his work. In 1824 his famous Ninth Symphony was performed. The delighted audience applauded the composer for a long time, but he stood with his back and did not hear anything. Then one of the artists turned Beethoven towards the audience, and then he saw them waving their hands, scarves, hats to him. The crowd greeted the composer for so long that the policemen standing nearby began to appease the audience, since such a stormy ovation could only be shown to the emperor.

Being in his deafness, Beethoven, nevertheless, was aware of all political and musical events. When friends came to him, the communication took place with the help of "conversational notebooks". The interlocutors wrote questions, and the composer answered them orally or in writing. Beethoven evaluated all musical works by reading their scores (musical scores).

On the day of the composer's death, March 26, an unprecedented storm of snow and lightning broke out on the street. The weakened composer suddenly rose from his bed, shook his fist at the heavens and died. Beethoven's genius was so great that his works are still considered the most performed among the classics. In addition, very often it can be heard in a modern reading. Some time ago, it made a splash "Performance" of the 9th symphony in boogie style with 167 nesting dolls with a theremin inside.