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When Beethoven died, the weather even sort of noted of the event there was rare thunderstorm or snowstorm and there was a crash of light and thunder. Beethoven open design a sort of race of this fist with a meaning which is as important as something great had happened. The great man have died. During the lying stag, all of Beethoven's hair was cut off as souvenirs. What happened to the hair later is that the locks of his hair were put into his friends and kept by the people that were friends of Beethoven. Nowadays, the attraction of the lock of hair, I think primarily, is that it allows people 200 years later to be in the presence of Beethoven again in a physical way. Here it is...OK. Now, it's sealed with the inscription on paper: this hair must be taken by my father Dr Hailer the day after the looming one of Beethoven's death from Beethoven's corpse. It is in vacuum. I have a medical practice, and I see a lot of patients but seldom do I get to treat Beethoven * . For me, it's 10 percent science, 90 percent emotion. I am no one special, but he affected me in a personal way. Everything else is lost. And you really think you are alone, which happens to you frequently. You'll never be really alone if you listen to Beethoven. At least I'm never alone because I always have Ludwig Van. Two hundred years since the birth of Beethoven, his music still speaks as he expressed it from the heart to the heart. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Poland in this house, possibly in this room. A hundred thousand people climbed these stairs every year drawn by love of his music. They particularly want to see the room with extrodinary spirit came into the world. Not want to be disappointing them, museums' staff have labored this is his birth room . But they are guessing. Its shine to a composor whose music has inspired pilgrimage passion across time and now across different cultures. He was baptized on the 17th of December, 1770 and was probably born the day before. He came from a musical family. His father was a court tenor, His grandfather was a capellmeister to the top job. "But while (whereas?) his grandfather was a great musician. His father was a failed musician. His mother had a strange relationship towards him. She knew he was a different child, a strange child. She found it difficult to relate to him. He was withdrawn." His father knew from the start that Ludwig was a very specially talented child musically. And he saw him as a way of making money for the family. After all Mozart’s father had done the same with him as a child. He had taken the young Wolfgang abroad to London and so on and earned money through the child and Ludwig’s father said "I can do the same. I can really make money out of this child. " And to do that, he kept him practicing. According to the children that Ludwig grew up in the same house says, the father would beat him across the hands. If he didn’t practice, he would keep him until dawn. The one thing that Ludwig wanted to do was improvise whether he was on the piano or the violin which he was learning as well. He would improvise. He wouldn’t read what was written on the paper. His father would say: Stop all this splashing around. Stick to the notes that were there. He couldn’t understand that improvisation was in any way important or special. "Beethoven appeared to be neglected, isolated and this may have had a great artistic importance because of Beethoven's interest in the problems of human communication and separation." "I think the first evidence that Beethoven was going to be a great musician surfaced in his ability under his teacher Christian Neefe. “To learn by memory and play in a very impressive passion.” All of the .......XXXX, this was cornerstone of Beethoven’s musical development." Mozart, of course, he adored. And when a new Mozart opera would come out in Vienna, the score would soon reach bomb and the young Ludwig van would devour it. "In 1787, Ludwig was 16 and a half year of age, he finally achieved his childhood ambition—go to Vienna and meet Mozart." He played the piece of Mozart which he'd specially prepared. Mozart said: no, no, any one can play that. Play something else. So Beethoven did what he did best. He asked Mozart to give him a theme, any theme, and he improvised on it. Mozart said: Watch out for him. One day, he will give the world something to talk about. "And it was a tragedy for Ludwig , because while he was there, he received a note from his father in Bonn saying: Come home immediately. Your mother is dying. You cannot stay in Vienna. And he had to leave and, of course, by the time he got back to Vienna which was 5 years later, Mozart was dead." Beethoven's mother died of consumption. The inscription says: "She was such a good, kind mother to me and indeed my best friend." His father became more and more alcoholic to it finally became the case that Beethoven had to ask for his father's salary to be given to him directly so that he can take care of his brothers. When Beethoven's father die, the elector quit, that, is too bad. There will be a decline in the tax revenues from liquor. The Elector of Bonn, Maximilian Franz, was a patron of the young Ludwig. And the Electoral Palace was the center of musical life. Today, it's the town university. When Beethoven was twelve, his teacher Neefe predicted he would surely become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were he to continue as he has begun. In 1790, the emperor Joseph II died and Beethoven was asked to write a memorial celebration. The composer was only 19. "We tend to think perhaps of Beethoven as a later developer, say, than Mozart, but he did do some remarkable work very on his own. I think perhaps his outstanding work that he wrote in one was the concerto on the death of Joseph II, which he wrote in 1790. Now, this is a very, very powerful work indeed for a boy of 19 to written. " "The use of very pregnant, dramatic motives, right at the beginning, impinges instantly on the minded. There is a general intensity by the writing, which is very distinctly Beethovenean. And what's the thing that makes it outstanding is of course the physical scale. " "And he composed this for the electoral orchestra, of which he was a member to play. And they just would not play. It's just too difficult. At the wind section, in particular, looked to the score and say: 'This is impossible and it was actually never performed. ' " "What is essential in Beethoven's music is the dynamics. When it is loud. When it is soft. Previous composers would have a soft section they will build up to a loud section. Not Beethoven. Loud one moment. Soft the next. Very loud. Very soft. And those dynamics are again pure Beethoven. " "These were revolutionary times. " In August, 1792, Louis XVII was arrested and would soon go to the guillotine in Paris. In October, the Elector fled Bonn because of French troops in the Rhine area. Beethoven left a week later to travel to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn. He would never return to Bonn. Vienna at that time was a marvelous place for young musicians to go to. It has always been a city of pleasure or frivolity right back to the middle ages. The city was the most crowded city in Europe at the time. It had a population of probably around a quarter of a million, and that is about 25 times the size of Bonn, at the top society there would be endless balls, and then musical concerts, and then for the ordinary people in the streets there would be juggling acrobats, street music, puppeteers, but there was another sign tour, some one described it as a city of frivolity but despairing frivolity. The rulers of Europe were terrified that the French Revolution would spread. In Vienna, the emperor tightened censorship and gave extra powers to secret police, but instrumental music, the most abstract and least censorable of the arts, flourished. “I think it was recognized from the beginning the extent to which Beethoven was within the whole influence of Mozarts and Joseph Haydn, but I think it was also shocking from the beginning what he was doing to that and people really hated it, I mean that there is no question about the fact that is from th e beginning, Beethoven’s style of playing the piano and his style of composing were repellent.” “Comments such as Beethoven’s music was hairbrained, ah, that, it was bizarre that it was overly complex, that it jolted the listener out of transports. All of these comments came from musicians.” “The opening save extending the true” “As a kind of a hightness quality I mean even that, is sort of more humorous than Hayden slightly more rough than Hayden would do but and you know that a little costive than Hayden, but it still has a Hayden thing, but later in the piece, ” “I mean all that, were the basic keeps going up, I mean that is real Beethoven trick of, throughout the middle years and he's already using when he was quite young and this was a tremendous surge of energy that you get in there and this was something that people already complained about Beethoven, it’s a kind of violence that he was doing.” Beethoven’s music was controversial; it could be interpreted in two quite extreme ways as, as very bad or very good. Therefore perhaps much more certain than other music. It was in need of framing, it needed a kind of protective envelope, that could introduce it to new comers. So that they could hear it in sympathetic ways. And this is something the Beethoven’s patrons we re actively involved. They er… They would stage improvisation contests. “Shooter” as I like to call them, where each noble men arrow scrap was the sponsor a piano of virtue orzo and they would set them against each other, one would improvise then the other would have to imitate the tune improvised on it, then the second one would set a new tune and the first would have to improvise on it. And Beethoven, arrived from bun, ill caned with this funny rhyme land accent, hair all over the place and he would take on this bulwarked be frocked virtue orzoes and just ran out of the town. Without the support of his patrons, without the kinds of material and public relations, tasks that they carried out on his behalf, he would not have been able to compose as he did, he could well of composed, but it’s questionable whether he’d have been able to find values for performances, whether he’d been able to enlist musicians, whether he would have been hurt, whether he would have been published, and therefore whether his music would survive today. With his Ops18 set of String Quartets, Beethoven now 28, began to organize his music ideas more systematically. Right from the early stage, he used to make rough draft to his works. And he jotted theses down in every scraps paper, and then he found his craft paper getting so muddily and disorganized, that he really need to start using a proper manual script book for jotting these ideas down. And so he started using what is known as “sketch books”, which have lots of musical fragments all over the place. He used to wander around the countryside, with a little bit manuscript paper in his hand, the pencil and if he has gotten an idea, he promptly jotted it down. People very often think that Beethoven was very slow at composing and took a long time was most prudential and peacefully quickly. Obviously improvisations demonstrate that he could invent music extraordinary rapidly his music was more complex than it sounds. And he gets more complex as he goes and this is partly through the sketching process. Beethoven's music was controversial; it could be interpreted in two quite extreme ways as, as very bad or very good. Therefore perhaps much more sure than other music, it was in need of framing, it needed a kind of protective envelope, that could introduce it to new comers. So that they would hear it in sympathetic ways. And this is something that Beethoven's patrons were actively involved. They in.. They would stage improvisation contests. Shootouts, / I like to call them, where each nobleman, aristocrat would sponsor a piano virtuoso and they would set them against each other, one would improvise then the other would have to imitate the tune improvised on it, then the second one would set a new tune and the first would have to improvise on it. And Beethoven, arrived from Bonn, ill cant with this funny Rhine land accent, hair all over the place and he would take on these bewigged befrogged virtuosos and just run them out of tune. Without the support of his patrons, without the kinds of material and public relations, tasks that they carried out on his behalf, he would not have been able to compose as he did, ah he could well have composed, but it s questionable whether he d have been able to find values for performances, whether he d been able to enlist musicians, whether he would have been heard, whether he would have been published, and therefore whether his music would survive today. With his Opus. 18 set of String Quartets, Beethoven now 28, began to organize his musical ideas more systematically. In 1796 or 97, Beethoven had suffered a serious illness, possibly meningitis. My ears continue to hum and buzz day and night, He wrote, I can hear sounds, it s true, but can not make out the words. He first noticed that his hearing was going, when he was around 28 years of age at the height of his early fame, producing great works. Suddenly he knew his hearing was beginning to go. The doctors said don t worry about it, it s a bit of wax, it ll be all right. But it kept getting worse and it lasted, in fact, I mean he was not fully deaf stone-deaf as we would call it, until his final years. When we were little children we hear that Beethoven was deaf, so we fell that fact away early on, and then we forget about it, and then we forget sort of what that means to be deaf. And every now and then I think we need to re-acquaint ourselves with that fact and rethink about it, and re-read the Heiligenstadter Testament . The Heiligenstadter Testament is a document was written in 1802 after months of suicidal despair. Its name comes from the village where it was written. Beethoven had gone there for the summer to rest his ears. Oh, you men who think or say I'm out of style or misanthropic, how greatly you're wrong. It was impossible for me to say to people: Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf. But how could I possibly admit weakness of the one sense which should be more perfect to me than another s, a sense which I once possessed, in the greatest perfection, I would have ended my life, only my art held me back. It seemed to me impossible to leave the world until I produced all that I felt was within me Careful dating the sketches has involved revealing because the first work he wrote after the Heiligenstadter testament was this oratorio Christ on the maintain ovlives. This is a very strange work; in it he doesn t deal with the whole of Christ's passions story, like most passions like Bach's passion. He dealt with just the aspect of suffering, loneliness and isolation of Christ as he is about to be crucified at the night before his crucifixion. And how Christ is going to overcome all these and save the world. And this is very much like Beethoven feeling his own isolation. And the other work he wrote straight after the Heiligenstadter Testament was the Eroica symphony. It's in the Eroica that for the first time everyone is convinced this really is Beethoven's voice. The extraordinary thing about the premiere of Beethoven 3rd was that it was done of course in a very small room, in the Locales Palace, but I think the biggest problem that many people had with it was that it went on much too long. It was too loud, interfered too much with their conversation, those of them who were not really music fans. And they thought it was rather a monstrosity, a great car bungler's symphony. You cannot believe that human being can invent that. As a musician, I must say it is incredible. One cannot believe the melodies are so simple, the motif is so simple. Every break is simple, but the building is incredible. The Eroica was a sensation because of its dimension. The symphony could last half an hour but never annoying. Absolutely not. The dimensions of the first movement are the dimensions of the whole symphony of Mozart or Haydn. You will hear the development of harmony, the development of melody, the development of richness. There was no symphony before which was so obvious connected with his story. And it tells you so much without being the program music. The eroica symphony, the story of a hero, was originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, the great republican. But when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, Beethoven flew into a rage. The name Bonaparte is no violently erased that there is a hole in the score. I believe that the Eroica was about Beethoven himself. It's the first piece in which he clearly shows us the kinds of sounds that appear in his ears, this deaf noise is brebrebre…..which becomes a recurring mode in every other piece after this time. And then of course finally this wild blast movements, pyrotechnical display of counterpoint on the most tribute of subjects as if to say that his last drill is supreme. He can now take the stage as a successor of Mozart and Haydn.