2017年11月22日 · Beethoven got so mad with rage that as soon as the man entered his room, he threw up and injured a nerve, that eventually led to his hearing loss.

2024年8月29日 · This unconscious shadow in Beethoven’s personality led to a very difficult life. He was in constant conflict with himself. Thankfully for him and for all of us, his creativity was stronger and more persistent than the damage and acted as a safe refuge for him.

Beethoven’s music, which continues to inspire emotions in listeners worldwide, is believed to be profoundly influenced by his tumultuous personal life. From his early struggles with family to his later battles with deafness and societal changes, Beethoven’s experiences translated richly into his musical output.

2015年1月14日 · Ludwig van Beethoven was an often unpleasant and always unhappy man, notoriously unkempt and suffering from chronic diarrhea, liver disease and depression. He lived in squalor, was once observed keeping an unemptied chamber pot under his piano.

However, one allusion does not alone make the work a homage to the model of Beethoven's 9th as, say, Mahler's 2nd does — and Brahms, who partially despised the adulatory remarks of 'Beethoven's Tenth' appended to his First, quipped that 'any ass can see that' regarding the similarity between his tune and Beethoven's.

2018年1月2日 · During the last eight years of his life Beethoven was almost totally deaf yet during this time he composed some of his most complex and profoundly spiritual music. His deafness forced him to turn inward for inspiration, and his music during this final period of his compositional career reflects the inner peace he had achieved despite the ...

Ludwig van Beethoven may have been a mad genius and tortured artist, but he is an ultimate example of the quality of resilience, according to psychiatrist and award-winning pianist Richard Kogan, M.D. In this video, taken at APA's 2012 annual meeting, Kogan discusses the great

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2022年11月19日 · In this letter Beethoven declares his heirs to his fortune, but the letter is also addressed to the whole human kind, explaining the reasons why he was such an angry man. Take this little excerpt: For my brothers Carl and [Johann] Beethoven.