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        French Revolution
        Robespierre
Danton
Santos
Beethoven
Fifth Symphony
"da da da da..."
"bang bang bang bang..."
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        英式拼写
The idea of speaking to posterity was another legacy of the French Revolution.
The revolutionary period was a period of oratory. In the convention in Paris, when people like Robespierre, Danton or Santos, these people stood up. They felt that they were speaking not just to the assembled audience there, they were speaking to the world at large, and indeed not only the world of the present, but they were speaking to posterity. And they crafted their speeches very carefully indeed. So as an orator, they would begin with some very striking phrase, some striking theme. They would develop that, and they would come back to that from time to time. And in a sense, Beethoven's music does that very often. He begins with something which is really striking gripping, a statement so to speak, then develops it, and then comes back to it, almost obsessively.
The Fifth Symphony is really something absolutely new. The symphony starts with "da da da da..." That's no music. It's political agitation. So it is like a manifestation of ideas.

It's not good the way we live, it's not good, and, then you, at one moment you can hear the horns playing very loud "bang bang bang bang..." They say, "Let's throw the emperor down to earth."