英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 05

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Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted bigger pianos, he wanted louder pianos, and we know that he broke strings¹, he smashed hammers, he also wrote music that implied that the piano range was too small, I mean you, you keep going to the last note of the piano and implying that the musics really could go higher but you can't. That's something that Mozart rarely did only on rare occasions that Beethoven does fairly constantly.

 

Haydn's influence on Beethoven came from his music, not his role as tutor. Beethoven once claimed he'd learned nothing from the lessons.

 

What is different in Beethoven is the emotional seriousness, the feeling, that one has at his music is somehow deeply moral, and there is no question about the amount of resentment² that Beethoven inspired in his audiences when he first appeared largely because of the way he made the listener concentrate on the. . the motivic work in the piece, the way he would take one single motif³ and then you had to realize the way this motif appeared in different forms throughout the work.

 

People didn't like to be forced to listen to music with that intension. On several occasions, Beethoven rebelled when the audience treated his music as mere⁴ background entertainment.

 

Beethoven's rebelliousness⁵ surfaces into sonata⁶ Pathetique in C minor⁷, a work which seemed to be a subversive⁸ composition. One of the influences on him was the great poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller. Schiller described tragic⁹ art as having to do with not simply the depiction¹⁰ of human suffering, but the attempt to resist succumbing¹¹ to suffering, in other words, resisting an attitude of resignation and this approach I think is reflected even at the very beginning of a piece like the sonata Pathetique of 13, we have this laden¹² chords in the low register, stressing complex, dissonant¹³ sounds like the one I'm playing here. We hear in the main fast section of the piece as a gesture of resistance to this suffering.

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