It seems that unfulfilled love produces excellent creative results. Would Ludwig van Beethoven have composed his greatest works if he had not been torn with longing for romantic fulfilment? Beethoven wrote in his personal diaries: "Only love, yes! Love alone can give you a happier life. O God grant me the grace to find her at last, the woman who will strengthen me in virtue and whom I can possess with a quiet conscience."
The composer may have been infatuated with a woman named Antonie Brentano, to whom his poem 'Immortal Beloved', discovered after his death in 1827, may have been addressed. "Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved - ever thine - ever mine - ever ours."
Composer Robert Schumann's passionate devotion to his fiancee, Clara, and anguish that the marriage was opposed by her father Friedrich Wieck resulted, says author Basil Howitt, in some of his most stupendous work."Intense and unfulfilled longing for his beloved drew some heavenly music from Schumann," says Howitt, in his recently published book, 'Love Lives of the Great Composers'. No less than four major works grew out of all his pain and anguish." Howitt says: "My cumulative impression is that suffering and angst in love have produced more great art than has happiness."
Source: Adapted from the South China Morning Post, 04.02.96
Vocabulary
// unrequited passion
love or passion for a person which is not returned by that person Return
// Russian roulette
a game of chance in which each player in turn spins the cylinder of a revolver loaded with only one cartridge and presses the trigger with the barrel against his or her head Return
// muse
In Greek mythology, any of nine sister Goddesses, different art or science. In this passage it is used to mean a woman who provides inspiration to create works of art. Return
// craving
an intense desire or longing for something. E.g. For a part of her pregnancy she constantly craved chocolate .Return
It seems that unfulfilled love produces excellent creative results. Would Ludwig van Beethoven have composed his greatest works if he had not been torn with longing for romantic fulfilment? Beethoven wrote in his personal diaries: "Only love, yes! Love alone can give you a happier life. O God grant me the grace to find her at last, the woman who will strengthen me in virtue and whom I can possess with a quiet conscience."
The composer may have been infatuated with a woman named Antonie Brentano, to whom his poem 'Immortal Beloved', discovered after his death in 1827, may have been addressed. "Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved - ever thine - ever mine - ever ours."
Composer Robert Schumann's passionate devotion to his fiancee, Clara, and anguish that the marriage was opposed by her father Friedrich Wieck resulted, says author Basil Howitt, in some of his most stupendous work."Intense and unfulfilled longing for his beloved drew some heavenly music from Schumann," says Howitt, in his recently published book, 'Love Lives of the Great Composers'. No less than four major works grew out of all his pain and anguish." Howitt says: "My cumulative impression is that suffering and angst in love have produced more great art than has happiness."
Source: Adapted from the South China Morning Post, 04.02.96
Vocabulary
// unrequited passion
love or passion for a person which is not returned by that person Return
// Russian roulette
a game of chance in which each player in turn spins the cylinder of a revolver loaded with only one cartridge and presses the trigger with the barrel against his or her head Return
// muse
In Greek mythology, any of nine sister Goddesses, different art or science. In this passage it is used to mean a woman who provides inspiration to create works of art. Return
// craving
an intense desire or longing for something. E.g. For a part of her pregnancy she constantly craved chocolate .Return
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