Beethoven is recognized as the greatest musician in the world. The key to why he holds such a lofty honor lies in his works and the unique shocking power of his works. Beethoven was unfortunate since he was a child. His father was a cruel alcoholic. He deprived little Beethoven of time to study, rest and have fun, but just blindly forced his young son to practice piano and violin endlessly in the hope that he would grow up in the future. Become your own cash cow. Beethoven spent a cold childhood. In 1878, Beethoven went to Vienna to visit his long-admired idol Mozart as his teacher. Mozart was very surprised after listening to his improvisation, and said to others on the spot: Please be aware that this young man will shock the world. Unfortunately, his time studying in Vienna was soon interrupted because his mother became seriously ill and passed away soon after. Beethoven was devastated after losing the only relative in his heart. Excessive grief made him suffer from several serious illnesses one after another, one of which was smallpox, which permanently ruined his appearance. After the French Revolution broke out, the revolutionary spirit spread throughout Europe and occupied Beethoven's heart. Beethoven's personal experience and his upbringing determined the formation of his worldview. As we all know, Beethoven was not only short in stature and ugly, but also suffered from serious illness and later developed deafness. But this self-esteemed musician still believed, "No one can defeat me. I will hold on to the throat of fate." In the miserable days, Beethoven was engaged in the career of singing joy. Only music can make him happy. Overcoming his own pain brought him back from the brink of death again and again. In Beethoven's creative career, defeating bad fate and defeating human mediocrity has always been his theme. The Ninth Symphony is the most profound and majestic of all Beethoven's works, and embodies the musician's lifelong efforts. One day in 1924, the "Ninth Symphony" had its first public performance in Vienna. Beedo personally served as the conductor. This was the last time he appeared in front of a large audience. The performance was a huge success. The scene was so enthusiastic that it was almost indescribable. At the end of the performance, due to deafness, Beethoven could not hear the thunderous applause. The female singer Winger ran up to hold his hand with tears in her eyes, and helped him turn around to face the audience, so that he could see the heated scene. It is said that in Austria, even if the emperor appears, he is only entitled to three ovations according to custom, but this time, Beethoven received five ovations. This time was the happiest peak in Beethoven's life. Because he personally sang joy to people and also took a big step towards overcoming human mediocrity. Beethoven lived in the same era as Haydn and Mozart, but the sublime realm reached by his music made people feel as if they were living in another completely different era. Of course, he also absorbed a lot of nutrients from the previous masters, and achieved his achievements through digestion, absorption and improvement. He not only collected the culmination of Vienna classical music, but also comprehensively inherited and developed the essence of music since the Baroque period. Therefore, he became Prometheus in music and a world-recognized pinnacle figure in the history of European music. Beethoven's creative journey lasted for 35 years. In order to reach the state of perfection, he made constant struggles. When he entered the final stage of his career, he said: "I feel as if I have only written a few pieces of music." A true artist must be humble. Beethoven once composed the dance music for Goethe's famous play "Egmont", but Beethoven couldn't stand Goethe's groveling performance in front of the nobles, although he was still full of reverence for Goethe. However, the arrogant Goethe could never forgive Beethoven for criticizing him in person. Goethe was always cold and even ruthless towards Beethoven. On one occasion, Beethoven was in poverty in his later years, so he wrote to Goethe asking for help, hoping that he would help the Duke of Weimar order the "Missa Solemnis" he had painstakingly written in exchange for royalties, but he did not get an answer from Goethe... Beethoven He was an unfortunate man, poor, disabled, and lonely. The world never gave him joy, but he created joy and gave it to the world! He used his suffering to create joy, just as he vowed: "From pain to joy." Roland's biographies of Beethoven, Michelangelo, and Tolstoy are included in a huge plan of biographies. middle. The plan was announced in Fortnightly. Roland also plans to write biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Schiller, the French revolutionary general Ouch, Thomas Paine, an activist in the American Revolutionary War, and the famous French military engineer Wabin in the seventeenth century. He was also preparing to publish in French "Miller," which had been published in England, but later changed his mind because (according to some hints in his letters) he was not entirely satisfied with the work. What could have caused Rowland to give up on writing a whole series of biographies he had promised? In 1936, Rowland answered this question in a letter to American literary theorist Rowe Wilson. In studying the lives of great men, he gradually demonstrated that they were not always and not in every way worthy of imitation, and that each of them had faults and weaknesses. He saw this particularly clearly when he was working on the Life of Michelangelo. This becomes even clearer when studying Schiller’s life. ("The real Schiller, I don't like at all.

He is full of ideals, thus concealing his true character. In my opinion, compared with Goethe's character, his character lacks sincerity, lacks straightforwardness, lacks courage...") Roland is engaged in some other projects that he has already considered. During the creation of the biography, I also felt the same disappointment. In addition, there were other difficulties: the heirs of Ouch, Waben, and Mazzini refused the writer to read the surviving clan documents, while Roland strived to be correct and reliable and relied on truth. "If they had allowed me to look through it while I was working on the Biography of Beethoven, I would have been able to write the biographies of these three activists with great enthusiasm. But then it was too late. I quickly set strict demands on myself, as I would on a historian. So after the completion of the "Biography of Beethoven", the story of Christophe and Ange de Livière became my real "Biography of a Hero".