Biography about the sonata

He wrote in all the genres that existed in his time, including opera, music for dramatic performances, choral works. The most significant in his heritage is instrumental works: piano, violin and cello sonatas, concerts for piano, for violin, quartets, overtures, symphony. Beethoven's father was a tenor of the court chapel. Forced to leave the school at the age of eleven, the future great musician did not learn to multiply and division.

The lack of education did not prevent Beethoven from becoming a real erudite in the field of classical literature. He was well versed in the work of Shakespeare, Goethe, Homer, Plutarch, and knew a lot by heart. During his first Vienna Randev, the seventeen -year -old Beethoven spoke to Mozart. Tradition says that Wolfgang Amadeus was delighted with the art of the young man and forgot him a great future.

Haydn briefly noted that Beethoven's music was gloomy and strange. Beethoven was a brilliant improviser. His favorite drink was coffee.

Getting for cooking, the musician each time pedantically counted 64 grains - no less and no more. A rude, proud in public, the composer was very open, friendly in relation to friends. The character of the composer was very difficult, and sometimes grumpy. Once, during his public performance, a certain young man began to talk enthusiastically with his lady. Despite persuasion and apologies, he refused to continue to play.

But the friends of the pianist noted his friendliness, good nature and an excellent sense of humor. Once he did not come in a row for several days. The composer never refused close friends to help. One of his quotes: “None of my friends should need it until I have a piece of bread, if my wallet is empty and I can’t help immediately, well, I just have to sit down at the table and get to work, and soon I will help him get out of trouble.

Almost always, he was found carelessly dressed and unnecessary. Once Beethoven and Goethe, walking together in a greenhouse, met the emperor Franz, who was there at that time, surrounded by his retinue and courtiers. Goethe, stepping aside, bowed in a deep bow, Beethoven went through the crowd of courtiers, barely touched the hat. Beethoven's biography indicates that he had a very complex relationship with women.

One of the ladies that the pianist looked after was in horror. The wayward genius once almost destroyed one of his best works. Tenor Bart, looking at the composer and seeing that he was going to throw notes into the fire, grabbed them from his hands. Bart sat down at the instrument and performed a romance. Beethoven suddenly liked it. The piano work of the Viennese classic Ludwig Van Beethoven can be called an immortal heritage, which reflects not only the composer’s internal experiences, but also changes in the era.

The sonata is dedicated to a close friend and admirer of Beethoven's work - to Prince Likhnovsky. During the writing of the work, the composer was on the verge of the thirty years. Then the first signs of ambulance became noticeable. Work on the composition was conducted for about a year. It was a difficult time in his life: daily hearing was getting worse and worse, and the forecasts of the doctors were disappointing.

Beethoven did not leave his own musical craft, he composed all with the same zeal of grandiose and completely new in style of the work, but which were filled with radically different meanings. All pain and faith in the best were realized in the Pathetic Sonata. For the first time, the sonata was published in the year. It was a real premiere for society. Not every person could understand the real innovative language, so a serious dispute flared up between dogmatic people who wanted to preserve the old and between innovators who want to go forward and are not afraid of new and interesting.

Previously, not a single piano work caused such a violent discussion. Beethoven calmly reacted to the reaction of society, he is used to the fact that his music evokes ambiguous feelings in people. It was deafness that prompted Beethoven to compose many works having a dramatic or even tragic concept. The first signs of hearing loss were noticed in the year. By the time of writing, he had already heard poorly.

It is worth noting that Ludwig's habit led to the appearance of this ailment before the next composition of the works to lower his head into ice water. The reflection of many musical impressions of the composer can be found in the Pathetic Sonata. For example, the theatricality of the work is a response of admiration for the opera of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice. Heroic style, minor is a grandiose scale and dialogue - this is what proves relatedness and proximity to the opera genre, namely with a work of Gluck.

Often, a person’s struggle with fate is compared with a clash between Orpheus and Furies. The famous pianist Ignats Mosheles at the age of 10 learned to memory the musical text of the work and performed it in front of the most diverse public.According to his story, there were always people who were either immensely delighted with innovation, or those who missed, not understanding the beauty of musical and expressive means used by the author.

It is noteworthy that the little pianist could not purchase the notes for lack of funds, so he rewrote them at night, so far no one saw. Everything would be fine if once he had not blabbed about his “heroic” act to the teacher. He was furious and kicked him out of the educational institution. But everything is for the better, because the boy was on training in Beethoven.

Having first heard Beethoven’s eighth sonata, Haydn, being Ludwig's former teacher, said that he had a feeling that the composer had several goals instead of one, several hot hearts instead of one and several souls instead of one! It is to the depths of his soul are amazing the imagination and imagination of the author. Then Haydn was silent for a moment and added that in his music you can always find something insurmountably gloomy and gloomy, such that the composer's style really expresses.

In the conservatory, the veins were forbidden to play this work, since the only truly valuable composers, useful for study, were considered Bach, Mozart and Clement. Beethoven believed that he could overcome all the hardships, prepared by his fate, that someday he could again hear music. Perhaps that is why the finale is so optimistic. In the future, the theme of fate will become an insurmountable pain of the composer.

When Beethoven was 34 years old, Napoleon despised the ideals of the Great French Revolution and declared himself an emperor. Therefore, Beethoven abandoned the intention to devote his third symphony to him: “This Napoleon is also an ordinary person. Now he will trample all human rights and become a tyrant. ” On the title sheet of the manuscript of the "pathetic" you can see the dedication crossed out by the author.

Then Beethoven called his third symphony "heroic." One circumstance overshadowed the life of the composer - gradually fading hearing. With my craft, nothing can be terrible ... Oh, if I got rid of this disease, I would hug the whole world. ” Beethoven created his ninth symphony, being already completely deaf. First, the musician carefully hid the loss of hearing. The musician did not like to give piano lessons.

The exception was only gifted students and attractive young women. A virtuoso game on the piano brings Ludwig the first glory. Beethoven's works differ from the classical game of harpsichorders. In Vienna, the compositions in the future were written in the future: “Pathetic sonata”, “Lunar sonata”. Once, a student of Beethoven Disa happened to hear a new creation of Beethoven.

Somehow on a walk they got lost and returned home in the evening. On the way, Beethoven growled a stormy melody. Arriving home, he immediately sat down at the instrument and, enthusiastic, completely forgot about the presence of the student. So the final "Appassionates" was born. In the year, Beethoven met with the Aristocrats of Gvichchardi, who came from Italy to Vienna.

The daughter of a venerable family, sixteen -year -old Juliet, had good musical abilities and wished to take lessons in the piano game at the idol of the Vienna aristocracy. Beethoven does not take a board from the young countess, and she, in turn, gives him a dozen shirts that she herself sewed. Beethoven was a strict teacher. When he did not like Juliet’s game, annoyed, he threw notes to the floor, defiantly turned away from the girl, and she silently collected notebooks from the floor.

Juliet was good, young, sociable and flirty with her summer teacher. And Beethoven succumbed to her charm. He thought of marriage despite the fact that the girl belonged to an aristocratic family. But the composer in love comforted himself by the fact that he would be concert, he would achieve independence, and then the marriage will become possible. In winter - Beethoven completes the work of a new work.

And in the March of the year, Sonata N 14, which the composer called Quasi Una Fantasia, that is, “in the spirit of fantasy”, was published in Bonn with the dedication of “Alla Damigella Contessa Giullietta Guicciardri” “Dedicated to Countess Gvichchardi.” The composer was added to his masterpiece in anger, rage and severe resentment: from the first month of the year, a windy coquette showed a clear preference to the eighteen -year -old Count Robert von Gallenberg, who was also fond of music and composed very mediocre musical opuses.

However, Juliet Gallenberg, he seemed brilliant. The composer transmits the whole storm of human emotions that was in Beethoven's soul at that time. This is sorrow, doubts, jealousy, doom, passion, hope, longing, tenderness and, of course, love. Beethoven and Juliet broke up. And later the composer received a letter.