watched the 1994 movie Immortal Beloved tonight. The story of the movie is unfolded from the love letter that Beethoven left behind after the death of the recipient is the "immortal lover".
The only feeling after watching the movie is: the years pass, only art and love will last forever! I have
watched Romain Roland’s "Beethoven" many years ago, and still vaguely remember the end of the book: an unfortunate person, poverty, disability, loneliness , People caused by pain, the world does not give him joy, but he creates joy to give the world! He used his suffering to cast joy, as if he used that rhetoric to explain it,-that can sum up his life and become the motto of all heroic souls: "Joy in exchange for pain"
The Origin of the Letters
July 6, in the morning
My angel, my all, my very self-Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours)-Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon-what a useless waste of time-Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks -can our love endure except through sacrifices, through not demanding everything from one another; can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine-Oh God, look out into the beauties of nature and comfort your heart with that which must be-Love demands everything and that very justly-thus it is to me with you, and you with me. But you forget so easily that I must live for me and for you; if we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I-My journey was a fearful one: I did not reach here until 4 o'clock yesterday morning.Lacking horses the postcoach chose another route, but what an awful one; at the stage before the last I was warned not to travel at night; I was made fearful of the forest, but that only made me the more eager-and I was wrong . The coach must needs break down on the wretched road, a bottomless mud road. Without such postilions as I had with me I should have remained stuck in the road. Esterhazy, traveling the usual road here, had the same fate with eight horses that I had with four-yet I got some pleasure out of it, as I always do when I successfully overcome difficulties-Now a quick change to things internal from things external. We shall surely see each other soon; moreover, today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life-If our hearts were always close together,I would have none of these. My heart is full of so many things to say to you-ah-there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all-Cheer up-remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours. The gods must send us the rest, what for us must and shall be-
Your faithful Ludwig
Evening, Monday, July 6
You are suffering, my dearest creature-only now have I learned that letters must be posted very early in the morning on Mondays-Thursdays-the only day on which the mail-coach goes from here to K.-You are suffering-Ah, wherever I am, you are with me-I will arrange it with you and me that I can live with you. What a life!!!! thus!!!! without you-pursued by the goodness of mankind hither and thither-which I as little want to deserve as I deserve it-Humility of man towards man-it pains me-and when I consider myself in relation to the universe,what am I and what is He-whom we call the greatest-and yet-herein lies the divine in man-I weep when I reflect that you will probably not receive the first report from me until Saturday-Much as you love me-I love you more-But do not ever conceal yourself from me-good night-As I am taking the baths I must go to bed-Oh God-so near! so far! Is not our love truly a heavenly structure, and also as firm as the vault of Heaven?-
Good morning, on July 7
Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, not and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us-I can only live wholly with you or not at all-Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the lands of spirits-Yes unhappily it must be so-You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart-never-never-Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V[ienna] is now a wretched life-Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men-at my age I need a steady, quiet life-can that be so in out connection? My angel,I have just been told that the mailcoach goes everyday-therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the l[etter] at once.-Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve out purpose to live together -Be calm-love me-today-yesterday-what tearful longings for you-you-you-my life-my all-farewell. -Oh continue to love me-never misjudge the most faithful heart of you beloved.
ever thine
ever mine L.
ever ours
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