One day, Beethoven came to a restaurant for dinner. After ordering food, he was suddenly inspired, so he grabbed the menu on the dining table and made a song on the back of the menu. After a while, he was completely immersed in the beautiful melody. Seeing Beethoven's devotion, the waiter didn't dare to disturb him, and planned to serve him later. About an hour later, the waiter finally came to Beethoven's side: "Sir, are you ready to serve?" Beethoven paid the bill as if he had just woken up from a dream. The waiter is like a monk-confused: "Sir, you haven't eaten yet!" " ""no! I'm sure I've eaten. " Beethoven didn't listen to the waiter's repeated explanations at all. After paying the price on the menu, he grabbed the menu full of notes and rushed out of the restaurant.

Enter this country every day.

In his later years, Beethoven once heard a friend play his variations in C minor. After listening for a while, he asked, "Whose work is this?" "yours." The friend replied. "My? I wrote such a clumsy song? " Then he added, "Ah, Beethoven is a fool!" Goethe's evaluation of Schiller is completely applicable to Beethoven: "He is changing and growing every week. Every time I see him, I always feel that his knowledge, knowledge and opinions have improved compared with the last time. " Beethoven even tried to destroy the songs he wrote when he was young, Adelaide and Septet in E-flat Major (Op. 20). This is by no means accidental. Like Beethoven, it can really be said that "fifty knows forty-nine mistakes."

Make it impossible for opponents to copy.

Beethoven made friends with the Browning family in Bonn when he was 18 years old (1788). The daughter of this family is called Ereonole (1772-1841), and the son is called Rolenc (1777-65438+). 10, Beethoven left Bonn for Vienna. Because of a quarrel before he left, Beethoven didn't write to Errol for one year after he arrived in Vienna. 1793, he dedicated the title of his first work published in Vienna (some of which was written in Bonn) to Eleanor. This work is a variation on violin and piano with the theme of Figaro aria in the first act of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. 1793165438+1October 2, Beethoven wrote to Ereonole, and finally talked about the technically difficult vibrato of the piano, saying: "Some people in Vienna, after listening to my impromptu performance in the evening, will record the unique things in my style the next day and count them as their own. I wouldn't have written this kind of music if I hadn't seen through their behavior. I know their music will be published soon, so I decided to strike first. But I have another reason: I want to beat those Vienna pianists, some of whom are my sworn enemies. I want to repay them with this, because I expected that my variations would meet so-called gentlemen everywhere and make them look like a mess. " Soon after, Beethoven played this piece in public, showing his superb piano skills.

A rigorous attitude towards composition.

Mendelssohn once published a Beethoven manuscript. On this manuscript paper, there is a place that has been changed and changed, and twelve small pieces of paper have been posted. Mendelssohn opened these small pieces of paper one by one, and found that the innermost piece of paper (the initial idea) was exactly the same as the outermost piece of paper (the twelfth rewrite). At the beginning, Wang Anshi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty in China, took great pains and conceived dozens of schemes for the word "green" in the sentence "Spring breeze is greener in Jiang Nanan". It is precisely because of the creative spirit of outstanding artists at home and abroad that future generations can appreciate such touching works of art, and composing music is a very hard work for Beethoven. When he composed the opera Federio, he drafted ten opening lines for one of the choruses. People are familiar with the theme motivation of the first movement of the Symphony of Destiny, and more than a dozen different ideas have been found in his draft. Beethoven often takes a notebook with him, and he never forgets to record his sudden inspiration when he walks. This is very similar to China Tang Dynasty poet Li He.