【世界文化博览】伟大的作曲家：贝多芬 4

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The one thing that the Ludwig wanted to do was improvise, whether he was on the piano or the violin which he was learning as well. He would improvise. He wouldn't read what was written on the paper. And his father would say, stop all this splashing around, stick to the notes that are there, 'cause he couldn't understand that improvisation was in any way important or special.
Beethoven appeared to be neglected, isolated and this may have had a great artistic importance because of Beethoven's interest in the problems of human communication and separation. I think the first evidence that Beethoven was going to be a great musician surfaced in his ability under his teacher Christian Neefe to learn by memory and play, in a very impressive fashion, all of the preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and this was a cornerstone of Beethoven's musical development.