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at the age of 35 ludvig van Beethoven

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had pulled himself back from the brink

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of suicide after realizing he was going

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down he came through the trauma with

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characteristic Defiance he was already

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one of the most celebrated composers in

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Europe and now embarked on a period of

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prodigious

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creativity I think the originality and

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diversity of the music he kept creating

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were a direct consequence of his battle

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against the physical odds it's almost as

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if he felt he was running out of time to

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express what it was he knew he had to

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express the biggest and most immediate

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challenge facing him was the writing of

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an opera the summit of ambition for any

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composure at this time

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Europe in the early 1800s was in chaos

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Napoleon's forces were sweeping across

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the continent recently occupying

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Beethoven's home city of Vienna although

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dismayed by this act of aggression the

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revolution's ideals of Freedom truth and

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equality resonated with Boven and within

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them he found inspiration for his Opera

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entitled

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Leonora this is a work full of fari

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revolutionary fervor and idealism where

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freedom and Justice

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Triumph it's a rescue story and for the

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first time in operatic history it's a

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woman Leonora who becomes the story's

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Hero by rescuing her husband listan Who

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Lies imprisoned in a dungeon awaiting

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execution and while the Opera had been

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inspired by the revolution it also fell

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victim to

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it I yes the occupation had dire

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consequences for the

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Opera most of his friends and supporters

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had already left the city and the

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opening night audience was made up

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almost entirely of French

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officers unfortunately it was only under

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full not good for

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business I wouldn't have missed the

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premiere of a new work by my great

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friend L also as a patron I had to be

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there but even disregarding the small

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audiences there were problems with the

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work itself

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it was too

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sophisticated too

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long and

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frankly it needed more

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drama after the performance to encourage

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ludvig I gathered some cast together to

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sing it

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through and to try to persuade him to

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Make Some

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Cuts Beethoven blamed the difficulties

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of the Opera entirely on the tenner who

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was playing the husband

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floristan personally I thought this a

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little

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unfair but I arranged for another to

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sing the

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part you've missed tea but that may make

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you sing the part of a starving man all

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better let's start B Hoven was prone to

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passionate outbursts

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so I knew it would be a difficult

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excellent I shall have to see to it the

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you are starved before every performance

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and we shall be sure of a success H you

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lowski every phrase is there for a

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reason yes I agree but that ARA is not

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the problem making an opera is not like

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choosing which waste coat to wear with a

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certain pair of britches it's more

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complicated than that please try to

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understand people want drama not just

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clever

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music the first two acts are just too

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long they can't be

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shortened ludig

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please for my sake for your friend

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sake please don't let this beautiful

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work be lost to the world simply because

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it needs some refining

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so you all agreed

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then well then I shall have to go back

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to the

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beginning take another look at

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it however however fled the dramatic

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structure of leanora was musically you

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can see in it many Beethoven Hallmarks

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in the are which Leonora herself sings

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he uses orchestral instruments for their

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symbolic effect the horns for instance

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are used in a completely new way

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traditionally they represent and

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accompany a male hero but here they're

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reserved for Leora and on one level they

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give her added power but on another the

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way that they're pushed and tested

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beyond their limits potently mirrors

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leonora's own trials

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well I suppose the shortened work was a

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reasonable success but it made neither

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beeo nor my theater a huge amount of

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money it so damn

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stubborn idealistic you

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see I don't I think you could possibly

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have given me my right percentage just

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just well we can only pay you your

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agreed percentage ludvic please do count

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it again I don't mean to count it again

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I'm not

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stupid you are only paid this very

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generous amount

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generous you are paid this very generous

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percentage because we all hold you in

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the highest esteem but the fact remains

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ludvic the house was under half full

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now your music plays to a cultural

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audience of course yes it

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does but well take The Magic Flute for

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instance now that really did Rouse the

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multitude I don't compose for the

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multitude if we had paid her Mozart the

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same percentage of the receipts of his

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operas well he would have been a very

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rich man what are you saying nothing I

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I think you should raise your hair

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Mozart from the

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dead because the performances of this

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Opera are finished what do you mean I

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mean what I said I'm I look be pleas

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good

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day good

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God bethoven was true to his word and

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locked away the score of his Opera but

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he didn't forget it

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in Leonora he'd created the woman who

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perfectly embodied Fidelity and

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Womanhood but in real life she was much

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harder to

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find ha Beethoven had a great liking for

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female Society if ever he saw a Charming

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face we would often share a knowing look

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he was always falling in love usually

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with his piano students but generally

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the passion did not last long and of

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course often they were already spoken

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for but that didn't stop him

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hoping finding a wife the perfect

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wife was very important to

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him oh beloved

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Josephina it is no desire for the

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opposite sex that draws me to you

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no it's just you your whole self with

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all your individual qualities this has

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bound all my feelings all my emotional

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power to

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you one of the piano students bethoven

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fell in love with was Countess Josephina

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Dem a widow and mother of

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four my parents arranged my betrayed

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count Dem he died just before I had my

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fourth child B often used to come to our

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and after I saw my own we became very

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close I can't deny it I loved being with

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him his music was so

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powerful it could cheer me up or make me

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cry and he was a kind man and good with

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children but is to anything more

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permanent that was different

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it's beautiful look big

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have you had a chance to think about my

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proposal do you not enjoy my company you

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do do you not enjoy your lessons yes of

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course and I have the greatest respect

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and admiration for you

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but I have my

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position my my children to think

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musician a musician who's going

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deaf cantis stem's refusal to marry

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dealt a crushing blow to Beethoven's

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hopes of Finding Love and Marriage Not

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only was his increasing deafness

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isolating him but his uncertain

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financial status was also becoming an

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impediment to finding

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happiness at the time of his great

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disappointment with yoshina Dem his

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brother Carl seemed to find real

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happiness in love but Beethoven could

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never accept Carl's

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choice and he did like to see himself

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the Arbiter in all questions of

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married with all your distractions

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I I should need to find someone else to

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work Johanna is expecting our first

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child so I

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wedlock a splendid work for brother

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just Splendid and true to

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form and as for you

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lady I know

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you and so does all

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Vienna oh yes that's

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right nothing is ever good enough for

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the high and mighty

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Beethoven or is it that you can't bear

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to see somebody else being happy

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out why knew him to be an unpredictable

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man it is said men with great gifts have

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little time for pleasantries but what

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had I done to deserve such

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harshness and treating Carl his brother

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like an

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enemy perhaps I was not as fine a lady

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lady as the great composer was used to

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with he made my head spin with his

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insinuations bethoven was intolerant of

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those who didn't live up to his own high

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moral standards unable to reconcile real

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people real desires with his own

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women quite a beauty isn't she

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misunderstood and frustrated bethoven

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consistently felt isolated from those

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around him at exactly this time there's

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a typical example of how consciously or

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subconsciously the tensions in his life

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found expression and release in his

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music he was writing a new Piano Sonata

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which became known as the

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apassionata its title tells you

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[Music]

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everything this is music of violent rage

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tragedy and despair this Sonata finds

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Beethoven in the depths of human

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suffering the passion and turmoil caused

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by his failed love affair with yosina

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and his ambivalent feelings towards his

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brother's happiness are woven into the

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very fabric of this music which starts

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Darkly at the lower register of the

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[Music]

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keyboard now like in so much Beethoven

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this theme is built around a broken

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chord this is a

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chord here it is broken

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then after this Darkness you get a

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moment of poignant respite an

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acknowledgement perhaps of his

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inexorable Spirit he's bruised but he's

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not

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[Music]

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beaten from there he cranks it up a

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notch upper semmit tone raising the

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[Music]

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tension now he explores that fragment

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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recognize that the Fifth Symphony

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Motif which crops up again and again

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throughout Beethoven's

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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compositions Darkness misery

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introspection but

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determination B same with this piece I'm

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still here this is my inner core and I'm

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not ashamed to show it to you the

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tension between this Despair and his

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innate musical strength light a touch

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paper so that the piece suddenly

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explodes

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[Music]

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the mood he creates of sheer desperation

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and determination is imprinted on every

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bar of this first movement

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[Music]

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the passionata was created in stormy

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political times Austria was still under

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French occupation despite the political

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uncertainty Beethoven's reputation was

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growing and Wealthy patrons gravitated

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to him because of his increasing

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celebrity in Prince leowski he thought

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he'd found someone who understood his

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uncompromising artistic Vision the whole

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region was in chaos

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there were troops everywhere one had to

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make one's life as comfortable as

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possible and if that meant spending the

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odd evening entertaining some French

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officers then that's what one

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did some of them were actually very

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cultured and even loved

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music

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obviously they were very interested to

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hear of my support of my great

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friend there are

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um l

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come in but come and join

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us I'd like you to meet my

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friends we never stop moving you never

367
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know the next time you'll feel clean

368
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sheets or a comfortable bed and that is

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until we stay here gentlemen

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I propose a toast to our host

371
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our thank you well I hope I can make

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your stay all the better by persuading

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our guest of honor here ludvic van Boven

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to play for

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us

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I I'm very

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tired I better go to bed

378
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it's

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early I have a very busy day

380
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tomorrow lot to

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do B Heaven please you would honor us

382
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with your

383
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playing

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play play play play play play play play

385
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play play play play play another

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performing s

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he may not be a performing seal but he's

388
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certainly a rhyland pig perhaps we

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should arrest him

390
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gentlemen I doubt if any of you swine

391
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would know what a piano keyboard look

392
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like if it was blown or two from the end

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of a

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can I will not play for you

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now will I play for your

396
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Emperor

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Napoleon can't your guest take a

398
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joke such is the nature of the artistic

399
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mind gentlemen if you'll excuse me

400
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what are you doing where are you going

401
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at this time of

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night lri

403
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please there are and there always will

404
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be thousands of princes but there's only

405
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one be then what about your new word the

406
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manuscript will be rued

407
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[Music]

408
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to this day the rain streaks from that

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night can still be seen on the

410
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apassionata manuscript

411
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[Music]

412
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sir sir this note right for

413
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you dear

414
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ludvig I wanted you to know I have great

415
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news Johanna has given me a beautiful

416
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son Carl the

417
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boy it's a new bethoven

418
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H I hope you will visit and see your

419
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nephew

420
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soon Beethoven refused to see his

421
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newborn

422
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nephew once again his impossibly high

423
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and unrealistic moral standards short

424
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circuited his natural

425
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feelings for him Yanna was simply not a

426
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good enough mother for the Beethoven

427
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family and therefore he couldn't visit

428
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them in fact he didn't see his new

429
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nephew for eight

430
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years in the meantime I think he found

431
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an emotional substitute in his

432
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relationship with the teenage Arch Duke

433
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Rudolph who was himself a talented

434
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musician and who became his new

435
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[Music]

436
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,880
Patron so big

437
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hello

438
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,159
big

439
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:07,159
yeah I've been wanting to ask for some

440
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,279
time I'm intrigued by your

441
00:26:13,679 --> 00:26:20,679
methods please do not think me rude

442
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:23,000
but with your hearing difficulties how

443
00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:23,000
do you

444
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,919
compose I'm sorry that was out of

445
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place

446
00:26:31,919 --> 00:26:36,520
that's I know there's much curiosity

447
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:41,559
about

448
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me much titl tattle

449
00:26:42,919 --> 00:26:47,640
huh it's true many of the high notes are

450
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lost to

451
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me and sometimes

452
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,120
more both good days and bad days and it

453
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,240
did doesn't affect me though as you

454
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might

455
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think you see all of the music that I

456
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,240
write I can

457
00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,240
hear in my

458
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,399
mind I know the sounds that every

459
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:17,039
instrument can

460
00:27:13,399 --> 00:27:18,919
make I can hear them all in a trio

461
00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:21,080
quartet Orchestra

462
00:27:18,919 --> 00:27:24,600
it's it's all

463
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:29,039
there it's all

464
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,039
there and my head

465
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,240
one of the pieces that beome was working

466
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,559
on during this time was his pastoral

467
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:39,080
symphony music which does I think

468
00:27:36,559 --> 00:27:41,519
Express his deepest sense of loss for

469
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,880
the sounds of nature that he'd soon not

470
00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:46,880
be able to hear the countryside for so

471
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,440
many 19th century composers a source of

472
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inspiration was for Beethoven a place

473
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where man could encounter God

474
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[Music]

475
00:28:02,130 --> 00:28:06,519
[Applause]

476
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,600
although large public orchestral

477
00:28:06,519 --> 00:28:11,480
concerts were rare in the early 19th

478
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,440
century Beethoven's Fame secured him a

479
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night in Vienna's most popular theater

480
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:19,200
just before Christmas

481
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:22,159
1808 even today this concert seems like

482
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,399
an extraordinary event just imagine

483
00:28:22,159 --> 00:28:27,440
being present at the public premiere of

484
00:28:24,399 --> 00:28:29,960
five major Boven Works including the

485
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,240
Fifth Symphony pastoral symphony the

486
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:35,440
fourth piano conto some of the most

487
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,399
famous music in history for Beethoven

488
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,000
the concert was an important personal

489
00:28:37,399 --> 00:28:42,799
statement he was saying just look at

490
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,519
what I'm capable of the whole of Vienna

491
00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:47,200
wanted to see how he had refine his gift

492
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:49,279
and of course they wanted to see the

493
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,480
famous Boven

494
00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:54,519
himself well he realized that this

495
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:56,399
concert was very important for his

496
00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:59,159
reputation and for his financial

497
00:28:56,399 --> 00:29:01,399
situation as well

498
00:28:59,159 --> 00:29:04,039
Boven decided to start the concert with

499
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the pastoral symphony it was his way of

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easing the audience into an evening

501
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,559
which would become increasingly

502
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,880
challenging challenging not just for the

503
00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:15,279
concert goer but for the orchestra as

504
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,799
well with just one rehearsal for the

505
00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:21,440
musicians to learn the music the tension

506
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:21,440
before the concert was

507
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:29,279
palpable stop

508
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,519
stop is it

509
00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:31,519
what's

510
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,720
wrong what's the matter what marking

511
00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:36,720
have you got here why have you

512
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,010
stopped really SI for

513
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,559
you come

514
00:29:44,010 --> 00:29:49,120
[Music]

515
00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:49,120
on I know it's

516
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:55,000
early

517
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:58,640
again well he didn't make it easier for

518
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,640
himself or others

519
00:29:59,010 --> 00:30:03,640
[Music]

520
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,919
why have you stopped what's wrong with

521
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,159
you

522
00:30:04,919 --> 00:30:10,279
people bov's conducting style was so

523
00:30:08,159 --> 00:30:12,120
wild and hard to follow and he was so

524
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:14,000
demanding that eventually the orchestra

525
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,880
refused to play if he was

526
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,279
present was left the unfortunate Rees to

527
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act as goet

528
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[Music]

529
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,680
[Music]

530
00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:44,440
[Applause]

531
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[Music]

532
00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:51,630
[Music]

533
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:06,790
h

534
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:06,790
[Music]

535
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,200
now

536
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,150
[Applause]

537
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:37,639
sir they say there is too

538
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:41,200
much there is so much new work and it

539
00:31:37,639 --> 00:31:41,200
is too

540
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:46,559
difficult bethoven you know we only have

541
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,000
one rehearsal and the orchestra are

542
00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:49,000
merely

543
00:31:49,039 --> 00:31:58,240
human just tell them to play

544
00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:58,240
it exactly as I have written it

545
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:08,440
the orchestra eventually got through the

546
00:32:06,919 --> 00:32:10,720
enormous repertoire planned for the

547
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,919
concert and on a freezing cold December

548
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:16,320
evening hundreds of people flocked to an

549
00:32:12,919 --> 00:32:20,600
unheated venes theater to see and hear

550
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:31,600
the city's most famous resident

551
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:33,440
[Music]

552
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,080
after the evocative lyricism of the

553
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:38,000
pastoral symphony Beethoven assaulted

554
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,519
his audience with the violent Fifth

555
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,880
Symphony a kind of electric shock

556
00:32:40,519 --> 00:33:14,729
therapy

557
00:32:41,880 --> 00:33:14,729
[Music]

558
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,900
[Music]

559
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,080
starting with those four powerful notes

560
00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:34,559
The Fifth Symphony is really an exercise

561
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,799
in compression in St contrast to the

562
00:33:34,559 --> 00:33:40,320
sixth Symphony the pastal which takes

563
00:33:36,799 --> 00:33:40,320
the same opening rhythmic

564
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,039
fragment and expands it it's interesting

565
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,799
to look at these two Symphonies side by

566
00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:51,399
side and that's how bethoven saw them

567
00:33:48,799 --> 00:33:55,080
very much as a pair and where the sixth

568
00:33:51,399 --> 00:33:58,679
symphony is lyrical and expansive The

569
00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:01,440
Fifth Symphony is brutal and compact act

570
00:33:58,679 --> 00:34:03,480
and lacking in any obvious Melody and

571
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,799
unlike any Symphony that had gone before

572
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:09,079
the whole piece is one through line

573
00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:10,720
towards the exultant finale Beethoven

574
00:34:09,079 --> 00:34:12,720
uses a variety of musical devices to

575
00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:15,200
bring about this tremendous sense of

576
00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:17,879
climax but none more so than the use of

577
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:20,159
that opening rhythmic device it's

578
00:34:17,879 --> 00:34:22,679
everywhere and in fact it pervades his

579
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:24,919
entire compositional

580
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:27,320
output near the end of the third

581
00:34:24,919 --> 00:34:29,919
movement of the scat so Beethoven strips

582
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,320
the music music right back the timony

583
00:34:29,919 --> 00:34:35,079
just keeping that rhythmic cell ticking

584
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:37,639
away and it's out of this sparse sound

585
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:40,760
world that the Fourth Movement erupts

586
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:42,879
pushing decibel levels to new heights

587
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,639
you hear Piccolo and trombones for the

588
00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:46,960
first time in a symphony and the whole

589
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:49,240
Orchestra explodes in this climactic

590
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:52,919
finale where bethoven is taking us from

591
00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:54,639
minor to Major from Darkness to a blaze

592
00:34:52,919 --> 00:35:02,729
of light

593
00:34:54,639 --> 00:35:02,729
[Music]

594
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,680
a e

595
00:36:04,119 --> 00:36:09,839
of the piano in a conto invariably the

596
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:12,119
orchestra would lead before creating

597
00:36:09,839 --> 00:36:14,920
space for the piano but Beethoven turns

598
00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:17,280
this on its head starting with a solo

599
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,720
piano and not only that he starts

600
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:22,160
tentatively almost in the manner of an

601
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:25,119
improvisation it's a very introverted

602
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,770
beginning the antithesis of the grand

603
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:43,980
gesture

604
00:36:26,770 --> 00:36:43,980
[Music]

605
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:49,480
Fifth Symphony fourth piano conchetto

606
00:36:46,319 --> 00:36:49,480
invariably it's somewhere

607
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,839
close with this strange beginning

608
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,800
Beethoven is starting a conversation or

609
00:36:54,839 --> 00:36:59,920
even a set of negotiations where the

610
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:02,359
piano is attempting to dictate terms to

611
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:04,240
the orchestra the tension between the

612
00:37:02,359 --> 00:37:06,000
two is there right from the start the

613
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:08,960
orchestra come in in a key which is

614
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,440
completely foreign to the piano so much

615
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:13,340
of the time this is conversation through

616
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:26,890
Discord

617
00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:26,890
[Music]

618
00:37:27,839 --> 00:38:02,719
the

619
00:37:30,000 --> 00:38:02,719
[Music]

620
00:38:06,340 --> 00:38:09,429
[Music]

621
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,839
the tension becomes much more pronounced

622
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,839
in the second movement where the

623
00:38:21,839 --> 00:38:25,800
orchestra and the soloists are

624
00:38:23,839 --> 00:38:28,920
determined not to engage with each other

625
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:31,660
they're almost in gridlock two utterly

626
00:38:28,920 --> 00:39:10,439
alien musics at work

627
00:38:31,660 --> 00:39:10,439
[Music]

628
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:18,119
when the piano finally breaks out it

629
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,280
does so in a very unusual way sounding

630
00:39:18,119 --> 00:39:23,000
almost unlike anything which has gone

631
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:25,960
before and now the gulf between soloist

632
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,440
and Orchestra seems almost unbridgeable

633
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,320
you might expect the orchestra to just

634
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:34,720
stand up and leave the room

635
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:46,449
[Music]

636
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:46,449
[Applause]

637
00:39:49,330 --> 00:40:01,440
[Music]

638
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:04,280
eventually though Beethoven brings about

639
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:06,319
resolution and Reconciliation the piano

640
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,839
and the orchestra unite to allow for the

641
00:40:06,319 --> 00:40:11,800
catharus of the last movement the piano

642
00:40:09,839 --> 00:40:14,240
has mollified the orchestra the

643
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:16,440
individual voice has soothed the masses

644
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:20,359
and Beethoven's violent instincts have

645
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:22,640
been tempered by his compassionate will

646
00:40:20,359 --> 00:40:24,290
it's a very accurate self-portrait in

647
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:35,979
music

648
00:40:24,290 --> 00:40:35,979
[Music]

649
00:40:41,650 --> 00:40:53,019
[Music]

650
00:40:49,730 --> 00:40:53,019
[Applause]

651
00:40:56,079 --> 00:41:01,240
the success of this concert confirmed

652
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:03,599
beom's position as Vienna's and indeed

653
00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:08,160
Europe's most celebrated

654
00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:10,000
composer but his financial situation was

655
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:13,000
precarious the concert didn't make

656
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,280
ludvig the money he wanted and even

657
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,760
deserved and an offer had come through

658
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:20,760
for a job working away from

659
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:23,880
Vienna so he soon let all his patrons

660
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:26,920
including me know that he might desert

661
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:29,000
us of course we had to do something you

662
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,960
must have understand I need total

663
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,720
artistic Freedom yes it's all fine lck I

664
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:37,319
need to travel whenever I want and have

665
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:39,760
benefit concerts I need them it's all in

666
00:41:37,319 --> 00:41:42,000
the annuity

667
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,760
contract what we

668
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:48,079
ask is that you agree to continue to

669
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,079
live in Vienna

670
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:04,119
this was an extraordinary and unique

671
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,880
agreement the first time an artist had

672
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:09,839
been recognized in this way Beethoven

673
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:14,280
was to be paid a lifelong yearly sum to

674
00:42:09,839 --> 00:42:16,839
compose whatever he wanted whenever he

675
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:19,119
wanted at around this time with his

676
00:42:16,839 --> 00:42:20,760
money worries seemingly at an end

677
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:22,720
Beethoven entered into a passionate

678
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,119
relationship with a woman he called in

679
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:28,680
an extraordinary letter his Immortal

680
00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:32,359
Beloved her real identity has been the

681
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:34,400
subject of debate for the past 150 years

682
00:42:32,359 --> 00:42:36,440
while we may never know for certain the

683
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,559
most recent research seems to indicate

684
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:41,839
that she was Anton brentano the wife of

685
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:43,870
a merchant baven had a close

686
00:42:41,839 --> 00:42:48,150
relationship with the

687
00:42:43,870 --> 00:42:48,150
[Music]

688
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:57,960
couple my angel my all my very self much

689
00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:00,960
as you love me I love you more

690
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:03,599
I can only live either wholly with you

691
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:06,960
or not at all no one else can ever

692
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:10,960
possess my heart never

693
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:14,760
never your love makes me at once the

694
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:19,240
happiest and the unhappiest of men

695
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:22,599
continue to love me never misjudge the

696
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:28,920
most faithful heart of your beloved

697
00:43:22,599 --> 00:43:32,960
Forever Yours forever mine forever us l

698
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:34,839
Vic I was Ill because I didn't want to

699
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,160
leave

700
00:43:34,839 --> 00:43:39,880
Vienna my husband's work meant that we

701
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:43,920
had to go and live in Frankfurt

702
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,920
and I I just couldn't bear

703
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,119
it how wish you

704
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:58,920
today no better I'm

705
00:43:54,119 --> 00:44:01,520
afraid it's good of you to come

706
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:05,839
should I play something for her yes

707
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:09,400
please I'm sure it would help it always

708
00:44:05,839 --> 00:44:11,800
does now if you'll excuse me I I'll go

709
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:14,079
back to the office there is still a lot

710
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:18,520
of work to do before we

711
00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:18,520
leave thank you my friend

712
00:44:31,430 --> 00:44:46,849
[Music]

713
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:56,119
only L comforted

714
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:58,599
me his music told me everything about

715
00:44:56,119 --> 00:45:01,810
his feelings from

716
00:44:58,599 --> 00:45:07,699
me I would have given up everything for

717
00:45:01,810 --> 00:45:07,699
[Music]

718
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:16,440
[Music]

719
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:21,960
him we loved each other deeply

720
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:21,960
but he loved my husband as well

721
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,680
and I just

722
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,860
I just don't think he felt able to cause

723
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:36,200
so much pain to a

724
00:45:31,860 --> 00:45:39,880
[Music]

725
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:43,040
friend I would have gone with

726
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,040
him but

727
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:50,240
ludig

728
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:52,319
well perhaps when it came to it the the

729
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:55,160
idea of a married life was was something

730
00:45:52,319 --> 00:45:58,920
best kept as a dream because his music

731
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,920
would always come first

732
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:06,630
[Music]

733
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:13,000
I may no longer be a man not for

734
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:16,240
myself only for

735
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:20,359
others for there is no longer

736
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:20,359
happiness except in my

737
00:46:21,839 --> 00:46:27,359
music bethoven was devastated by the

738
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:29,520
breakup of the affair it put an end to

739
00:46:27,359 --> 00:46:32,040
the illusion that he could ever find a

740
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:34,240
normal family life and I don't think

741
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:37,480
it's a coincidence that at this time his

742
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:41,160
hearing began to deteriorate more

743
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:43,800
[Music]

744
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,559
rapidly added to this the money from his

745
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,359
special contract with his aristocratic

746
00:46:45,559 --> 00:46:50,400
patrons had stopped the effect of

747
00:46:48,359 --> 00:46:52,680
crippling inflation under the rule of

748
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:56,210
France meant his backers couldn't keep

749
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:59,440
up their annuity payments

750
00:46:56,210 --> 00:47:02,040
[Music]

751
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:05,280
I went to his lodgings to see how he

752
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:09,559
was he wasn't at

753
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:09,559
home but what I found shocked

754
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:15,400
me everything just seemed to go wrong at

755
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:16,920
once you

756
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:21,200
seemed

757
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:22,559
broken so unhappy and suddenly extremely

758
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,800
hard of

759
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:28,359
hearing although that may only have

760
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:30,520
seemed worse do to the Mala that now

761
00:47:28,359 --> 00:47:33,680
engulfed

762
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:39,160
him he sent me a

763
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:41,760
letter in which he seemed to be in a bad

764
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,440
way by then we had not seen each other

765
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,440
since our

766
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:53,760
arguments a number of unfortunate

767
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:57,319
incidents which have occurred one after

768
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:59,960
the other have really driven me into a

769
00:47:57,319 --> 00:48:03,640
state bordering

770
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,640
on mental

771
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:11,079
confusion he complains

772
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:14,079
of a thoroughly

773
00:48:11,079 --> 00:48:14,079
lacerated

774
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,800
Heart by all

775
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,680
accounts he had become so neglectful of

776
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:27,160
his

777
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:27,160
person as to appear positively dirty

778
00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:00,559
oh my brother so good to see you

779
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:04,839
what is it what's the matter are you

780
00:49:00,559 --> 00:49:12,280
sick what's wrong with your father H

781
00:49:04,839 --> 00:49:15,079
tell me what speak up H I'm your

782
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:18,720
uncle uncle

783
00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:21,760
lud what is it what is

784
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:23,960
you come come on is this where you a

785
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,480
chance meeting with his brother Carl now

786
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,280
ill with tuberculosis gave bethoven the

787
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:33,079
opport opportunity to claw back his

788
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:33,079
family in the most extreme and desperate

789
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:51,680
way I must speak

790
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:54,400
plainly the reason you are in trouble is

791
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:57,880
that Johanna has none of the qualities

792
00:49:54,400 --> 00:50:00,400
that make a good wife

793
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:04,359
n don't

794
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:08,680
worry I will look after little

795
00:50:04,359 --> 00:50:10,880
Carl but you must make me the so

796
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:14,839
Guardian

797
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:17,640
H Jesus mother yes yes yes yes yes and

798
00:50:14,839 --> 00:50:17,640
so she shall

799
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,880
remain but

800
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:30,559
this this document

801
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:33,400
will give me a certain right

802
00:50:30,559 --> 00:50:34,520
Susie to look after your interests you

803
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,280
the

804
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:39,720
father van

805
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:44,440
beethovens

806
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:44,440
H so here

807
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,200
Carl read

808
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:07,319
sign car car that's right much as I am

809
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,839
convinced of the openhearted disposition

810
00:51:07,319 --> 00:51:12,400
of my brother ludic van B

811
00:51:09,839 --> 00:51:14,440
Hoven I desire that after my death he

812
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:19,880
undertake the guardianship of my

813
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:19,880
surviving minor son Carl Von bethoven

814
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:28,359
I do not know what drives a man to want

815
00:51:24,119 --> 00:51:30,680
to separate a child from his mother

816
00:51:28,359 --> 00:51:32,280
I can only think that he wanted a family

817
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:36,200
of his own

818
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:39,960
so mine was the obvious

819
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:41,559
choice pushing my weakened husband who

820
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,880
so close to

821
00:51:41,559 --> 00:51:49,200
death could not stop

822
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,200
him was beyond worldly

823
00:51:49,839 --> 00:51:55,200
explanation Beethoven's Behavior seems

824
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:56,960
incredible to us now but he genuinely

825
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:59,160
believed he was protecting his family

826
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:02,359
from a woman who he saw as a completely

827
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:05,359
unsuitable mother and by bizarre twist

828
00:52:02,359 --> 00:52:06,880
of fate his belief in his own rectitude

829
00:52:05,359 --> 00:52:09,240
and his sense of his standing as an

830
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:12,760
artist were about to receive the most

831
00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:14,480
colossal boost his freedom Opera loraa

832
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:17,000
was chosen to be performed before the

833
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:20,000
crowned heads who were assembled for the

834
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:24,350
Congress of Vienna which redrew the map

835
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:31,480
of Europe after Napoleon's downfall

836
00:52:24,350 --> 00:52:33,680
[Music]

837
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,480
retitled Fidelio some of the most

838
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,060
dramatic changes to the work were in

839
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:43,480
florist

840
00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:46,160
[Music]

841
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:49,319
tanzara he places extra emphasis on the

842
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:51,559
word fight or freedom in an incredibly

843
00:52:49,319 --> 00:52:53,920
high-pitched conclusion that's almost

844
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:56,640
impossible to sing at the very limits of

845
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:59,000
a tena's range forcing him like Flor

846
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:02,480
stand into a state of exhaustion and

847
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,480
physical breakdown

848
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:08,179
[Music]

849
00:53:10,910 --> 00:53:24,139
[Music]

850
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:34,599
[Music]

851
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:36,599
this time the Opera was a success its

852
00:53:34,599 --> 00:53:39,160
Universal themes of triumph over

853
00:53:36,599 --> 00:53:42,240
adversity and hope over despair were

854
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:46,119
embraced by audiences Yearning For Peace

855
00:53:42,240 --> 00:53:49,119
after the turmoil of the Napoleonic

856
00:53:46,119 --> 00:53:52,200
Wars professionally Beethoven could do

857
00:53:49,119 --> 00:53:55,520
no wrong fidelo had made him the most

858
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:57,640
sought after composer in Europe but

859
00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:00,079
privately his life life was

860
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:02,480
unraveling his brother's illness and his

861
00:54:00,079 --> 00:54:03,220
worsening hearing were conspiring

862
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:09,670
against

863
00:54:03,220 --> 00:54:09,670
[Music]

864
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:14,180
him good

865
00:54:13,079 --> 00:54:16,640
evening

866
00:54:14,180 --> 00:54:21,200
[Applause]

867
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:32,380
welcome please sir me to

868
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:32,380
[Music]

869
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:48,960
[Music]

870
00:54:47,359 --> 00:54:51,680
I remember the performance of the trio

871
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:55,160
he had written for me I was so looking

872
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,160
forward to it

873
00:55:02,070 --> 00:55:05,199
[Music]

874
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:09,440
in certain

875
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:11,920
passages my dear

876
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:14,400
friend pounded on the keys until the

877
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:14,400
strings

878
00:55:14,559 --> 00:55:21,480
jangled and in others he played so

879
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:23,520
softly that her groups of notes were

880
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:26,520
omitted so the music became

881
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,520
unintelligible

882
00:55:28,470 --> 00:55:33,530
[Laughter]

883
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:41,210
please sign this call for our

884
00:55:38,000 --> 00:56:00,400
son give me your hand

885
00:55:41,210 --> 00:56:02,160
[Music]

886
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,480
it is a great Misfortune for anyone to

887
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:06,880
be

888
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:10,559
deaf but how shall a musician endure it

889
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,559
without giving way to

890
00:56:13,319 --> 00:56:19,079
despair I have found it necessary to add

891
00:56:15,839 --> 00:56:21,400
to my will that I by no means desire

892
00:56:19,079 --> 00:56:24,240
that my son be taken away from his

893
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:26,440
mother but that he shall always remain

894
00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:28,319
with her

895
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:32,760
to which end the guardianship of him is

896
00:56:28,319 --> 00:56:35,720
to be exercised by her as well as my

897
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:37,990
brother God permit them to be harmonious

898
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:48,280
for the sake of my child's

899
00:56:37,990 --> 00:56:51,400
[Music]

900
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:54,810
welfare humiliated Beethoven never

901
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:57,960
performed in public again

902
00:56:54,810 --> 00:57:00,960
[Music]

903
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,960
call

904
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,000
call

905
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:09,720
call this is the last wish of the dying

906
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:13,480
husband and

907
00:57:09,720 --> 00:57:13,480
brother Carl Van

908
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:21,000
Beethoven with his brother's death

909
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,839
Beethoven's incredibly productive and

910
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:26,880
Innovative heroic period was

911
00:57:23,839 --> 00:57:29,000
over the next decade would be minated by

912
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:32,599
a bitter custody battle with Yanna for

913
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:35,240
his nephew Carl and a slow and agonizing

914
00:57:32,599 --> 00:57:38,440
descent into near total

915
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:41,680
deafness but once again he would find a

916
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:44,960
triumphantly defiant musical response by

917
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:48,160
composing works so radical that even to

918
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:52,839
our sophisticated and knowing ears they

919
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:52,839
still have the power to amaz

920
00:57:54,950 --> 00:58:03,449
[Music]

921
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,160
for

922
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,200
and you can hear the hole of the piano

923
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,760
conchetto number four as it would have

924
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:49,680
sounded at its Premiere with Beethoven

925
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:49,680
uncovered on BBC 4 now