Ludwig van Beethoven is a German composer and pianist. One of the most famous composers of the classics (after Max Fadeev, of course). What do we know about him? Well, he wrote the Moonlight Sonata. Did you know that the name “Lunar” appeared due to music critic Ludwig Relstab ?! Move on!
Father knew that he was raising a second Mozart
Beethoven's father, Johann, from early childhood taught Ludwig to play the violin and harpsichord (keyboard and string piece of music). He wanted to make a second Mozart from his son! Six hours of lessons on the harpsichord every day was not the limit - sometimes the father forced the baby to sit at the scales and at night. Although Mozart’s skills he did not show at all.
Mozart also knew that Beethoven would be his second
When Ludwig was 17 years old, he went to Vienna. It so happened that Mozart heard his improvisation and exclaimed: “He will make everyone talk about himself!” True, this generous exclamation given from above turned out to be a harbinger of tragedies in the Beethoven family. Almost immediately afterwards, his mother passed away. The young man was forced to get a job as an insignificant violinist in the orchestra, where he spent days and hours sitting in a pit in front of the opera stage. This was necessary for the maintenance of children (though not African, but still starving younger brothers, and maybe sisters).
Beethoven had to play in front of pigs
Once, when Ludwig was playing (not a computer, but a musical instrument), one of the guests began to chat loudly with the girl. Beethoven stopped playing and said: “I won’t play such pigs!” Despite all the apologies, entreaties and persuasions, he went away, proudly slamming the door (although everything happened on the street, it seems).
Beethoven was against power
When Ludwig began to lose his hearing, he used “conversation notebooks” to communicate with friends. Friends wrote to him, and he answered in writing or verbally. But the owner of two notebooks burned them, because there were rude and harsh attacks against the emperor, prince and officials. Beethoven was constantly outraged by the authorities, laws and regulations. Actually, a lot of creative people, well, how to say it, well, yes, something like that ...
Beethoven ignored the emperor
Once (in the icy winter season, or rather, history is silent), composer and writer Johann Goethe walked together. An emperor was walking towards them, all as pompous as Kirkorov (or Basque at worst), with his retinue. The German thinker who believed that to divide and rule was a wise rule, but to unite and direct much better, bowed strongly, and Beethoven simply went through the crowd of courtiers, slightly touching the hat.
Watched him
As mentioned earlier, Beethoven in his "conversational notebooks" allowed "free thoughts" (well, those that are against satraps and murderers). The great German, dear to any Russian and Belarusian person, respected the Frenchman Napoleon and even wanted to devote his Third Symphony to him, but soon declared:
This Napoleon is also an ordinary person. Now he will stomp all human rights with his feet and become a tyrant.
After the defeat of Napoleon, a police regime was established near Austria. Many people were being watched. Therefore, in the notebooks of a genius a phrase was often found: “Hush! Watch out, there's a spy here! ”
Death
Beethoven was killed by his doctor Andreas Vavrukh, or rather, accelerated his departure to another world, the kingdom of Aidushka-International, because the composer was sick with a deadly something inherent in alcoholics, called "cirrhosis of the liver." Home Aibolit did not pierce his peritoneum to remove fluid, but lubricated the wounds with lead. Well, there used to be either treatment methods or torture ...
Soon, the level of lead in Beethoven exceeded all conceivable and unthinkable, possible and impossible, alarming and not very parameters.
Expensive bones
Be that as it may, they decided to open it after the death of the musician. And at that time there was someone who had the idea of stealing a couple of bones from the table of a medical expert. And that someone was not a dog. And not even a cat. It was the so-called homo sapiens. Ancestor of the famous producer and director Paul Kaufman. And now these remains are in his pear-shaped box, which was passed down from generation to generation by fetishists in his family, like a divine totem protecting them from evil eye and damage.