world number one pianist

Chapter 299
Quiet, so quiet that it makes people feel scary.

Everything around seemed to be far away from He Shen's body.

He felt a tired emotion from the bottom of his heart.

The surroundings are not as before, some people are talking to him.

Some are just incredibly quiet.

It was so quiet that He Shen thought that Beethoven's ears were already deaf at this time.

After all, it is well known that Beethoven's ears were severely damaged due to hereditary syphilis.

But if you look at the release and writing time of this work.

Beethoven should not have been completely deaf at this time.

Is it normal?

This time period should be an extremely peaceful time period. At this time, Beethoven should be pursuing himself, his personal direction for the development of subsequent music.

After all, this piece of music is a small turning point in the music of Beethoven's works.

Determined the style of Beethoven's works in the middle period.

While He Shen was thinking wildly, everything in front of him slowly unfolded before his eyes.

Beethoven woke up and opened his eyes.

He got up and sat on the bed in a daze for a long time, looking at everything in front of him, just sat on the bed in a daze.

Feel the traces of time passing around him.

Just sat there quietly.

not moving at all.

I don't know what to think.

After an unknown amount of time, he shook his head, got up and walked to the window.

Reach out and push the window open.

The earth's air slowly boiled from the ground, and everything around was extremely quiet and peaceful.

Seeing all this, Beethoven didn't feel overwhelmed. Once excited, he directly picked up the pen and paper in his hand and began to write new music non-stop.

He just sat at the window and watched everything in the distance.

Looking at the mountains, rivers and lakes in front of you.

This is a village, an extremely remote village with few people.

His small villa is also very remote!

There is no one around.

He just looked at the scenery in front of him, and continued to be in a daze.

He Shen looked at what Beethoven saw and couldn't help hesitating.

At this moment, Beethoven didn't seem to be filled with anger and pride as many people imagined.

It seems to want to burn everything to ashes.

he looks like……

tired?

He Shen just observed everything about Beethoven from Beethoven's perspective.

After getting up in the morning, get up to boil water, cut firewood, make a cup of hot tea, hold the foamy tea, stand on the edge of the field, lean on the fence, smell the cool air, and the The smell of animal feces, let out a long sigh of relief.

He just stood there, did nothing, just stood there.

After an unknown amount of time, a car bell rang, and a slightly luxurious carriage stopped in front of Beethoven's hut.

A man in a tuxedo walked towards Beethoven from the car.

"Dear Ludwig van Beethoven, I am Krantz, the person in charge of the Hamburg Music Publisher. I asked you before, is the new music manuscript delivered on time? We are all looking forward to your masterpiece !"

The man looked at Beethoven expectantly, waiting for Beethoven's reply.

But Beethoven just glanced at him and ignored him, just staring at the village scene in front of him in a daze.

It's not that he didn't hear what he said clearly, it's just that he didn't want to pay attention to it.

Krantz waited for a long time without Beethoven's reply, he couldn't help rubbing his fingers in embarrassment, took a small step forward, and spoke in a more respectful tone.

"Your Excellency Beethoven, if you don't have any good ideas recently, why don't you listen to my advice?"

Beethoven glanced at Kranz at this time, his eyes were deep, but he still didn't speak.

Krantz looked at Beethoven's gaze, feeling uncomfortable all over his body, always feeling that behind Beethoven's gaze, there seemed to be another person looking at him.

He couldn't help coughing lightly, and spoke very seriously.

"Recently, in the German aristocratic circle, they are particularly fond of this pastoral music. Although they can't enter the pastoral, they hope to hear more pastoral music!"

"It just so happens that you are on vacation, living in this extremely quiet countryside."

"I don't know, can you..."

Krantz looked at Beethoven expectantly, waiting for Beethoven's reply.

But Beethoven didn't pay attention to him, just looked at the rural scenery in front of him, and spoke lightly.

"My work, I decide for myself!"

Krantz looked troubled: "But the market..."

"My work, I decide for myself!" Beethoven repeated, looking at Krantz, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a strong momentum gushed out of his outstretched hand.

Looking at Beethoven, Krantz couldn't help but took two steps back, lowering his head and not daring to speak.

Although it is said that Beethoven has a cooperative relationship with them, they are not subordinates.

Even Beethoven sometimes needed their help to publish.

However, publishers are not alone.

Beethoven is very famous throughout Europe, and they dare not offend him.

Beethoven slowly continued after seeing Krantz retreat.

"I will write the works I promised you before, don't worry."

After finishing speaking, Beethoven drank the frothy tea in the cup, not caring that the froth leaves entered his throat along with the tea.

He just turned and walked towards his house, closing the door.

Krantz looked at Beethoven's back with a hesitant expression.

He didn't know what to say, he hesitated for a long time, but he still didn't continue to enter the room to urge Beethoven to deliver the manuscript.

In the end, he just turned around and went back to the carriage, and let the driver take him back to see if any other composers wanted to deliver.

Submit a little work about the countryside.

Recently, pastoral works are selling really well. This kind of leisurely cloud and wild cranes, the kind of works that want to escape from the city, are selling very well!

Unfortunately, Beethoven did not accept the assignment, nor would he accept his offer.

He just seemed a little offended?
Kranz left, but Beethoven sat by the window, looking at the departing carriage, thinking deeply.

I don't know what he is thinking.

He Shen couldn't understand Beethoven's thoughts, but felt that Beethoven was in a kind of struggle at this moment.

I can only watch, but I don't know what Beethoven is thinking.

It seems that a fire ignited in his heart?

After an unknown period of time, Beethoven started to act again.

He got up, picked up a stack of music scores, walked to the window, looked at the scenery in front of him, and locked his eyes.

He was thinking about music!

"Is it pastoral..."

"This should be a very soothing sonata!"

Beethoven looked at everything in front of him, and suddenly thought of the earthly energy that appeared in front of him when he woke up.

That morning air!

He couldn't help being stunned and hesitated for a long time before slowly writing down the first note of the score on the staff in front of him.

D!

He is in the countryside, he needs to write a movement about the countryside, and he must also interpret his own understanding of music.

And this D, the D major full of sunshine and warmth, is his imagination of music.

He needs this feeling.

Beethoven began to keep walking in this room, and He Shen could feel one thing very clearly!

That is……

Beethoven's mood became more and more calm and peaceful.

His previous music was too extreme and too strong, almost consuming all his thoughts on life!
Therefore, he must seek a way out!

Looking for a way between music and life, a way out that can let oneself escape from this world.

The chords are played on the score, and the traces of alterations are obvious.

Beethoven is different from other musicians' hand notation, Beethoven's hand notation is almost the dirtiest one.

The scribbled, modified, and marked content on it is much more than the content marked by other musicians.

He Shen looked at the score in front of him, and with Beethoven's current movements, he could clearly feel Beethoven's thoughts.

He is thinking about everything behind.

What kind of music does he want and need!
Why would he want to construct such music!

This time, Beethoven did not look for a more outrageous and surprising musical structure as before.

"Pastoral, pastoral..."

"This is a piece about the countryside!"

"Pastoral style, serene, quiet, a relief for myself!"

"What I need is not going out of line, what I need is escape, escape from torture!"

"There should be a very clear gap with other works!"

"..."

Beethoven is thinking, he is talking to himself.

He muttered loudly to himself, but because of his ears, He Shen couldn't hear it very clearly.

As it was written, Beethoven suddenly tore up the score and replaced it with a new score.

"wrong!"

"It shouldn't be like this!"

"This should be more in line with today's composition techniques!"

"Structural lines should be clearer!"

"If you need clearer lines..."

Beethoven looked at the score in his hand, suddenly thought of something, and started to write suddenly.

hum...

hum...

hum...

He stopped from time to time, walked to the piano, experimented a few times, and listened to the sound of the piano in front of him, frowning constantly.

Not only he frowned, He Shen also frowned.

The piano is not a particularly good piano, it's just an ordinary piano, which is kept here as a spare.

The country villa where Beethoven is now is not a particularly expensive villa, but an ordinary small house.

He is not rich, because he is just at the junction of the two!
Before him, Haydn and Mozart, these people were supported by those big nobles, their food and clothing were supported, and their music was in the upper class.

In the Romantic period after him, Liszt, Chopin and others made money by themselves through performances and selling scores.

And now Beethoven, he just happened to be a musician who was abandoned by the upper class aristocrats, and he couldn't find a way to make money.

Although I can't say how poor I am, I am definitely not rich!

Beethoven looked at the piano in front of him and shook his head slowly.

This piano is probably just like this. He should rely on the sound in his brain and match it with a little piano to write.

"No, it shouldn't be like this, I should make a distinction from before! The whole should show a relatively complete trend!"

"There should be a closer connection between each movement and each movement, instead of being separated and independent like before!"

"The mood of the music should be softer..."

"Breathing in the pastoral, soothe the emotions!"

"Let the dry, numb state recover!"

"Brilliant divine wind blows..."

"The goddess plucks the strings..."

"Poetic dwelling in the pastoral..."

"The stars follow the sunset..."

"Everything in the world should correspond to its own emotions!"

Beethoven's eyes gradually lit up, and he felt as if he had found a trace of inspiration!

He ran out of the house abruptly, looking at everything outside the house, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly!
"rural?"

"This is the countryside!"

"I'm already in the pastoral! Observing everything in the pastoral!"

"Actually, this is the countryside I'm really looking for!"

"The countryside is not just a tree or a tree..."

"The pastoral is everything in the world!"

"The waves of the river flow in the mist, the night shadows of the stars and all things are eternal!"

Beethoven returned to the house and tore up the works he had written before.

He then turned out the third pile of music scores and started writing suddenly.

It is still in D major, and it is still that extremely strong warmth!

There were no more changes in mood.

What changed was only Beethoven's state of mind!

thump...

thump...

thump...

Beethoven wrote down countless D's in his left hand, so that this sound can almost run through the entire music chapter!
"D is a continuous sound, like the pendulum of a clock, throughout!"

"The clock, what it represents, should be eternal time!"

"This is the time!"

The musical chords of the right hand are different from before, showing a brighter state in this place.

The theme, compared to before, is much, much shorter!

"The theme should not be too long, too long will make people feel tired!"

"Compress the subject and make it shorter!"

"What I need is not a particularly long theme, what I need is a short theme!"

"What the short theme brings should be a comparison with the expansion part!"

"Development, how should I write the development? The development..."

"The expansion part needs to be strengthened! It needs to be stronger!"

"Expand and reappear, expand the dramatic recovery!"

"Recover the mood and soul of music!"

"It's still the previous structure, and it's still the traditional sonata structure!"

"This, I won't make any changes, and I don't need to make any changes!"

"From the same, find more new ideas!"

"This place, this place..."

Beethoven seemed to think of something, his eyes gradually lit up.

Everything he thought was completely different from Kranz's before, and he didn't write this work for Kranz.

He is just writing this work for himself!
"The combination of reality and fantasy, the emotions displayed by fantasy, show a little more!"

"I need more, more musical mood!"

"This emotion should be quiet and elegant!"

"Interesting, more and more interesting!"

"Don't give a single shred of particularly strong passion, and let everything escape!"

"I want a perfect sonata!"

Beethoven suddenly walked to the window and sat on the edge of the window, feeling the flow of the surrounding air, the corners of his mouth rose and became stronger and stronger.

He has found a path that is more suitable for him now!

At present, he should understand a path!

He doesn't know what the road will develop in the future.

But he knew that the current path should be right!

The work I have written so far is an extremely perfect work!

A true sense of the...

Big Sonata!

Beethoven kept writing and revising.

The whole person is completely immersed in the music.

He is thinking about music, and when he is free, he just walks outside, thinking about what he should do, so that a complete thought can run through the whole work.

Music needs to be complete.

The same theme should have the same emotion at different speeds.

How can this emotion be expressed more perfectly in music?
He was looking for a fuller, more austere, more rigorous style!

Let this style find unity in the differences!

This is very difficult, very very difficult.

For example, for a very beautiful emotion, you need to interpret it at a very fast speed.

This is fast, it is beautiful to be fast.

Very few people have done this before.

Those who do this will basically not write it as a sonata.

They will write a separate work to interpret this idea.

but!

Beethoven felt he could, he could feel very clearly...

He can do it!
This piece represents his personal turning point!
He clearly felt everything he could feel when he was writing this piece of work.

Music flows in his hands.

Flowing through his brain!

Although there is a little problem with the ear, but the problem is not particularly serious, I can still hear it!

Now the most important thing is music!

He wants to build a huge, magnificent, vigorous and powerful world with an absolutely unified image!

Time passed quickly, and Glantz came to Beethoven several times to look for him, but he was not allowed to meet. He could only hide aside and wait for Beethoven to come out to breathe before going to meet.

Every meeting was driven away by Beethoven and no interruptions were allowed.

Seeing Beethoven like this, Glanz was a little helpless for a while, but he had no choice but to go back to Hamburg honestly and wait for the completion of Beethoven's works.

Finally, I don't know how long it has passed.

Probably nearly a month later.

He is done!
Finished his music!
Beethoven looked at the incomparably huge sonata with four chapters in front of him, and a smile could not help but hang on the corner of his mouth.

"With the same emotion, in four different types of chapters, construct a unified sonata!"

"In that case, let's call this piece the Grand Sonata!"

"D major, grand sonata!"

The corner of Beethoven's mouth couldn't help but smile slightly, and he looked at the letters accumulated beside him.

In addition to chatting with friends and the publisher asking when the manuscript will be published, there is also a message about Baron Joseph Edlund von Zonenfels in the letter.

"Beethoven, I'm currently working with Baron Joseph Edlund von Zonenfels. He's promoting the Enlightenment! Advocating humanity and freedom. I think you might be a good match for him!"

"If you want, I want to introduce you to him!"

Beethoven looked at this letter, and then glanced at the work he had just finished. He couldn't help smiling, and at the end of the work, he wrote the last line casually.

"With this piece, dedicated to Baron Joseph Edlund von Zonnenfels!"

"Ludwig van Beethoven!"

Beethoven sent his works to the publishing houses with which he was associated, asking them to publish them.

All the publishers were very pleasantly surprised and immediately expressed their arrangement for publication.

After all, this kind of pastoral-style works have been selling very hot recently!
After Glantz got Beethoven's manuscript, he hesitated for a moment, and finally filled in the title of the D major sonata with the word "pastoral".

Beethoven did not know this.

He Shen didn't know either.

After he walked out of the memory of Beethoven's pastoral sonata, he quickly entered the memory of other sonatas.

When He Shen continued to experience Beethoven's experience and absorbed his understanding of music.

Tour day is here!
(End of this chapter)