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Beethoven
Vienna
Black-Robed Spaniards
Viennese
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Beethoven died in Vienna on March 26th, 1827, at the age of 56, in this room in the house of the Black-Robed Spaniards.
The very end of his life, his health got even worse than it normally was. His intestines started to swell. The condition is dropsy, and it got so bad that he had to be cut up and to let the waters drain out and the water would leak out onto the bed and onto the floor. And it was a rather miserable death.
The funeral was this miraculous event even by Viennese standards of the day. More than 20,000 people were said to have attended it. And there was a very special ceremony. It was very public, and very telling tribute to Beethoven's fame and to what Beethoven meant to the people of Vienna.
If I wanted to try and define the importance of Beethoven today, I would have to start very personally. And Beethoven's music is actually addictive, I mean he leads you on all the time when you can't stop listening. And this kind of intensity that he commands for listening is something that you don't want to give up. One may resent the amount of attention which one's supposed to give to music. One would like music, which one could relax to a little more, but you keep coming back to it because you have to. |
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发表于 2016-8-2 11:41:47