It is a pity that in the film "Copying Beethoven", the description of Beethoven is more on the surface and form, rather than his thought and soul. Perhaps, in less than 2 hours of film, it is more difficult to explain Beethoven's true emotions. However, the film is mainly about Beethoven's experience in writing the Ninth Symphony. Perhaps the film used words such as "God" and "Soul" to describe Beethoven's genius in order to cater to many audiences or judges who did not understand music, or to respect Beethoven. But it always makes people feel very bland, very superficial, very stereotyped.
Everyone understands music differently, and my views on Beethoven's, or those of true classical musicians, don't ask everyone to understand. But I always thought that music has nothing to do with God and soul, it is just a kind of borrowing, a kind of displacement, not a kind of sublimation and abstraction. Maybe we can create countless other gorgeous, sublime, sacred words to describe music, but never forget that real music is only emotion and can only be emotion, this emotion is not artificial, it is not fixed, it is real, are intertwined. It is a potential motivation given by life.
Beethoven's genius is not just his musical genius, but his intellectual genius, his emotional genius. It was his unruly genius, the genius of his life path. Especially his genius for understanding music. Yes, when you hear the Ninth Symphony, you feel the ebb and flow of your heart, but it's not a pattern. When appreciating music, many so-called "experts" often make textbook-style judgments wisely when they hear majestic movements or euphemistic and soothing movements, and seem to see waves, warriors, and embody the composer. The excitement, the passion, the unquenchable pain, or the composer's understanding of life, destiny, and soul. But is it actually so? ? Should music be understood this way? Doesn't anyone who hears music feel the same way? Isn't that what anyone who thinks about music understands? And if you change it to another symphony, it's still the same routine and the same conclusion.
The beauty of classical music is that you shouldn't use those low-level language or self-understanding ideas to describe her, you can only experience, understand, and feel in your heart. When a musician composes music, it is more about the interweaving of emotion and music, rather than a pattern, telling me that the beginning should be soothing and the later should be majestic. It's just a personal whim and play. It's like you draw a horizontal line on paper, and then you want to use the horizontal line to make a wonderful equilateral triangle, and then you feel as if you want to make this equilateral triangle part of some more wonderful figure , just like this, every time you reach a point, you will think and play for a more beautiful movement based on this point, without any constraints and restrictions.
Although some music appears in the form of narrative, it is not narrative itself. Narrative is just a sustenance and packaging. But its essence is the creator's inspiration and random thoughts. Any movement can give her a vulgar story, even those "sacred" legends. But no single story can constrain the music itself.
Symphony has her relatively fixed musical form, but music cannot be constrained by form. It is in this model that Beethoven shows a kind of confrontation and resistance, so that he has many wonderful movements. In the film, he broke the pattern that has always been dominated by B major, and has a wonderful and beautiful Ninth Symphony. He believes that the beginning of music can be the end, and her end can also be the beginning of a new movement. Although his fugue was difficult for the public to accept for a while, he must have opened a new era of classical music.
It is a pity that the film only describes some important facts that are easy to ignore, but focuses on the praise of Beethoven in words, forcing Beethoven to say: God made me deaf, read God's lips and so on. superficial statement. I don't think Beethoven would have thought so even if he said so.
There is a sentence in the film that is right: silence is the key. A musician always needs to obtain precious inner loneliness and loneliness in silence. Only in this way can his mind and his thoughts truly think and sublimate. Maybe the scientific theory to explain that is the only way to focus. But no matter what the explanation is, music is not the creation of the musician, but his thoughts, the creation of his emotions. And listening to music is the same, you must use your thoughts and your emotions to experience and appreciate it.
Don't associate music appreciation with the phrase "holding the throat of fate". We don't need to understand the musician himself, his experience, or a pattern to bind us to appreciate music. Music is the work of the musician. It is a portrayal of his thoughts, but it is not their original intention and idea to let us know their life through music. My own experience to describe music, to understand music.
Remember, next time when you are about to fall asleep, you might as well recall those symphonies in your head, those music you are familiar with, I think you will also have the inspiration and the urge to create. Because at that time, you are the closest to music and the most dedicated.
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