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发信人: xian (明灭生存), 信区: Music
标 题: Famous Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven(2)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sat Dec 20 04:53:06 1997), 转信
VIENNESE CAREER
The last 30 years of Beethoven's life were shaped by a series of personal
crises, the first of which was the onset of deafness.The early symptoms,
noticeable to the composer already before 1800, affected him socially more
than musically. His reactions--despair, resignation, and defiance--are co-
nveyed in letters to two friends in 1801 and in a document--half letter a-
nd half will--addressed to his brothers in late 1802 and now known as the
"Heiligenstadt testament." Resolving finally to "seize fate by the throat,"
he emerged from the crisis with a series of triumphant works that mark the
beginning of a new period in his stylistic development.
A second crisis a decade later was the breaking off of a relationship with
an unnamed lady (probably Antonie Brentano, the wife of a friend) known to
us as the "Immortal Beloved," as Beethoven addressed her in a series of l-
etters in July 1812. This was apparently the most serious of several such
relationships with women who were in some way out of his reach, and its t-
raumatic conclusion was followed by a lengthy period of resignation and r-
educed musical activity.
During this time Beethoven's deafness advanced to the stage that he could
no longer perform publicly, and he required a slate or little notebooks
(now known as "conversation books") to communicate with visitors. The death
of his brother Caspar Carl in 1815 led to a 5- year legal struggle for cus-
tody of Caspar's son Karl, then 9 years old, in whom Beethoven saw a last
chance for the domestic life that had otherwise eluded him. His possessive-
ness of Karl provoked a final crisis in the summer of 1826, when the young
man attempted suicide. Shortly thereafter, Beethoven's health began to fail,
and he died on Mar. 26,
1827 in Vienna.
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