Beethoven, who dreams of freedom, who beats fate with all his life.

 Beethoven, who dreams of freedom, who beats fate with all his life.

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"Which of Beethoven's sonatas is the best?"

A young pianist asked a famous professor.

After thinking for a while, the professor asks again.

"What do you think?"

The young pianist answered.

"I don't know, so I'm asking the professor."

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This is a conversation between a pianist and a professor who studied Beethoven all his life.

It is said that neither the pianist nor the professor could choose the best song in the end.

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He says that all of Beethoven's songs are the crystallization of pain and anguish under difficult and difficult decisions to ask questions and find answers on their own at every moment of every song, asking how can they hide the gems when there is not a single note or comma written easily.

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Beethoven, who had to suffer from his father's enormous complex with his whole body, in a poor family environment.

Beethoven did not choose music for himself. He has been dating since the age of four and studied music. It is said that the father, who came in drunk, often beat his son and made him study music. Even his mother, who had been his only source of strength, passed away early, and his father was still addicted to alcohol and could not get out. A harsh fate forced Beethoven to become the head of a boy, and despite such circumstances, he did everything in his power to somehow survive as a musician.

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In a situation that would not be strange even if he gave up everything, Beethoven made his determination not to live like his father as the driving force in his life.

Most people have two minds in life. Either you want to be like someone or you don't want to be like anyone.

Whatever choice you make, it will be difficult to realize in your life. Beethoven desperately dreamed of a 'noble ideal' in order not to become like his vulgar father in a time of trials and tribulations. He made a near-compulsive commitment to do good works that benefit human society. His determination and actions are fully revealed through his music. Beethoven, who fell into the Enlightenment and longed for freedom and struggled with it. He was deaf and sick, and the reason he devoted himself to composing so much was not to make money, but because he wanted as many people as possible to hear his songs.

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Beethoven began to suffer from hearing problems at a young age in his twenties and fell into a pit of excruciating pain. The pain was so severe that, in his early 30s, did he think that it would be better to choose death? he writes a will But he didn't die. His music world begins to blossom as if he was rewarded for his ordeal. Symphony No. 5 <Fate>, which is said to be synonymous with Beethoven, also appeared in the world around that time.

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"Fate knocks at the door like this."

According to Beethoven's pupil, secretary, and biographer Anton Schindler, Beethoven said this about the motive of the eight notes at the beginning of Fate.

For Beethoven, fate was always something he had to overcome. He just had nothing to gain from him.

It is said that luck sometimes follows people in life, but Beethoven was an exception. Most of the people he met and stood by him only hurt him rather than help. Nevertheless, Beethoven did not yield to this harsh fate. He never lost hope and positivity. He believed that in the end he would be victorious, and he did not doubt that one day, an equal world in which everyone would be free will surely come, until he passed away at the age of fifty-seven.

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If you had to condense the origin of Beethoven's greatness in one word, you could say 'freedom'. Beethoven was the most thirsty for freedom, so he overcame such a harsh fate and achieved immortal achievements.

I don't want anything.

I am not afraid of anything

i am free

Tombstone of 'Nikos Kazantzakis'

We are afraid because there is something we want, and we are not free because we are caught up in that fear. But like this epitaph, if there is nothing to hope, there is no fear, and without fear, you will be much more free.

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All valuables come with a price. Beethoven, who had no choice but to be free or lonely, lived on this earth with his feet, but nevertheless he lived constantly thinking about things that were not on this earth. I think this is perhaps the greatest gift that not only Beethoven, but all art and all artists give us.

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Freedom is inevitably accompanied by loneliness.

A free man must do everything himself. Without wishing for anything, without fear of anything, alone.

A painful and difficult decision

must be so

it should be

Beethoven String Quartet sheet music

If I had to define the flesh of Beethoven, I think it could be expressed in these three sentences.

This is because the price of freedom that Beethoven thought about his whole life from his birth to his death is all contained in this one sentence.

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He suffered from physical pain and depression such as poor family, deafness, pneumonia, cirrhosis of the liver, hydrocephalus, and abdominal pain. Although his life was always near death, his life was directed toward music, freedom and hope.

For Beethoven, who could say that his whole life was suffering, trials could not be an excuse.

Beethoven knocked on fate and opened the curtain of fate. He spent his whole life showing what it means to live to the fullest.