Love, born of a mispronunciation

The story of two people from a completely different world, who are close and in love because of art, is not uncommon in movies. Whether it is the pair of men and women who have experienced the hardships of life in "Once" who are getting closer and closer because of their fascination with music, or the two people who meet in "Love Before the Dawn Breaks" and are tied up for more than ten years because of a book and a record, this is an example. The Spanish film "Notes from Heaven", released in 2007, also tells the story of the male and female protagonists who met each other and fell in love because of music, but did not leave the audience with a reunion ending, which made people feel the fragility of fate and the impermanence of the world.

Poster for the movie Notes from Heaven

The male protagonist Gabriel has a great musical talent, plays the piano well, and hopes to make music his lifelong ideal. Who knows, unfortunate things came one after another: first the death of his mother and the imprisonment of his father, which led to the breakdown of the family, and then the robbery of his beloved piano. In desperation, Gabriel closed himself off, did not talk about music for half a sentence, and lived by making wood carvings. Years later, a girl named Sarah entered Gabriel's life and helped him struggle out of the mire, regaining his confidence and courage to pursue his musical dreams, and the encounter between the lovers was caused by a wrong tone.

The heroine of the film, Sarah, is the daughter of a diplomat, and has a wealthy family, and it is impossible to have any intersection with gabriel, a genius who lives in seclusion. Coincidentally, she moved into the apartment where Gabriel lived, practicing Beethoven's Violin Concerto every day, but she was stuck in the same bar every time, and she could not improve. Sarah practiced every day, every day wrong, which upset her neighbor Gabriel, and finally couldn't resist knocking on her door to correct the note that was always wrong for her. Fate also extends from this wrong note, and Beethoven's violin concerto has become a romantic witness to the birth of love between the two. Coincidentally, the only violin concerto beetet created by Beethoven in his lifetime was also inspired by love.

Composed in 1806, this Violin Concerto in D major is a product of Beethoven's artistic maturity. Several important works of the "Le Sheng", such as the Third Symphony "Hero", the Fifth Symphony "Destiny" and the Twenty-third Piano Sonata "Passion", were composed in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Compared to other works created at the same time, this violin concerto is rarely the deep or even gloomy that is common in shell works, and is completely cheerful and bright, especially the second movement in G major, "Very Slow Plate", which is arranged with a rather brisk instrument (the wind part is only clarinet, French horn and bassoon, no timpani), and a lingering romantic mood is laid out just right.

If we know that Beethoven was immersed in the sweetness of love at the time of writing this song, it is not difficult to understand why Mahler would describe this work as "different". In this concerto, the composer, who has struggled with a difficult fate all his life, completely abandons the darkness and depression and pours out his love for the schoolgirl, miss Brunswick of the Count of Hungary. In his own words, the period of writing the song, nourished by love, was "the clearest day of his life."

Therefore, the writers and directors of "Notes from Heaven" arranged for the male and female protagonists to live because of this song, or also implied that the source of inspiration for the song was also a love born of art more than two hundred years ago. Similar to the plot of the couple in love in the film who cannot stay together because the male protagonist is seriously ill, in reality, Beethoven and the count miss have not been able to have a lover and eventually become a family, becoming another regret in the composer's incomplete life. Some people say that the crippled life is real, and the real is beautiful, I think that whether it is the "Le Sheng" Beethoven or the musical genius Gabriel in the movie, when you hear this, you have to laugh helplessly. It turns out that no matter how unusual the genius is, after all, he can't avoid the joy and torment of love. (Li Meng)