【世界文化博览】伟大的作曲家：贝多芬 22

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        Beethoven
        19s~22s内容为blotches of moisture... Books and music were strewn about in
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        英式拼写
If you think this is hard work, it must have been pretty hard work for people moving Beethoven's furniture and his piano.
The Beethoven Museum in the flat next door gives no hint of the squalor in which Beethoven chose to live.

Picture to yourself the dirtiest, most disorderly place imaginable, blotches of moisture... Books and music were strewn about in every corner. Here, the fragments of a cold snack.
He seldom picked up anything with his hands without dropping and breaking it. On several occasions, he upset his inkwell into the piano.
Under the piano. And I do not exaggerate.
No furniture was safe from him. All was overturned dirty and destroyed.
The interior Beethoven, the private space Beethoven is a different Beethoven than the public space Beethoven, the concert hall Beethoven. And one of Beethoven's string quartets said this should never be played in public. These were pieces that were meant for intimate occasions. And they expressed different things. And this is a quality of music of the time that's different from today. There was music for public spaces and there was music for private spaces. And what Beethoven says in the two spaces is quite different.