Chopin
Chopin was afraid of the show. Whenever I go to a show, I always get very nervous and nervous. He lived to be 39 years old and performed only 30 concerts in his lifetime. If you count from the age of 9, you only perform one concert a year on average.
Chopin is extremely particular about dressing. He would choose two shoe shops to make custom leather shoes, and a custom hatter. He is also particular about soap and perfume, always picking the best brand. In addition, Chopin liked to buy the most luxurious and fashionable furniture, his room was full of flowers, and it had to be changed every day. And his favorite flower is Palma's violets. Because of his almost demanding elegance, Liszt described Chopin this way: "His posture and demeanor clearly reveal that he was well educated, so that people treated him like a prince. ”
Beethoven
Beethoven also had many lesser-known habits and quirks.
Beethoven liked to read Plato and Shakespeare, but he knew nothing about mathematics and could not even memorize the ninety-nine multiplication table. He often wrote letters with short texts and long notes, which were often four or five times longer than the original letter. He had the habit of walking long distances every day, five miles at a time, no matter how cold or heat it was, without interruption.
It is impossible not to mention here another of Beethoven's habits, who liked to stand in front of the sink, pour large glasses of water into his hands, and at the same time sing the melody in a condescending manner, and then stride around the house to record inspirations, and it is said that many of his compositions end in such water playing. But his quirk makes landlords and neighbors very unhappy, as water splashes on the floor and then seeps downstairs. According to records, Beethoven moved many times in his lifetime. So it can be seen from this how unpopular Beethoven's fetish is.
In addition, Beethoven became deaf in the ear at the age of 30, and as the deafness worsened, his temper became more and more grumpy. He never let anyone touch his room, which was a mess, chairs littered with paper, ink spilled into the piano, and underneath the paper was a plate of leftovers. Sometimes, he had a temper tantrum and was likely to throw a plate of food, gravy, and everything in the face of the waiter. At that time, Beethoven never changed his clothes, and his friends did not persuade him. They had to sneak into his room at night, take out his torn clothes, and quietly leave the new clothes behind.
Bach
Bach is the godfather of music, not only composing at the level of a god, but also a master of orchestra conductors. Strict conducting seems to have brought him another musical personality, that is, "love to throw wig sets". When Bach is playing unsatisfactorily in the band, he will get angry and even grab the wig in his hair and smash it on the head of the unsatisfactory player.
Gesner describes his superhuman conducting skills as follows: "Bach plays the ancient piano and conducts an orchestra of about 40 people. He stared at the first person with a furrowed eyebrow, the second person with a worried foot on the ground, and the third with his fingers to warn her to keep up with the band's music. Show the treble zone for the person in front and the bass zone for the person in the second row. No matter how loud the band and the choir make together, he can hear the wrong and running sounds in the singing. Even the slightest mistake must be strictly corrected.
Mozart
One lesser-known thing is that Mozart liked to imitate cat calls. Once he was rehearsing an opera with a singer, and suddenly Mozart, bored, flipped over his table and chair and learned to call a cat. He even wrote a comical song - when the husband asked his wife a question, the wife did not answer except by the cat call, and the husband had no choice but to learn the cat call. This is the "cat's duet.".
There are many incidents about Mozart's "fascination" with farting and defecation, the so-called "fecal mania". In one of his comical letters, Mozart wrote: The stench entered the room. When Mozart's mother hinted at Mozart's farting, Mozart put his finger behind his ass and sniffed it with his nose to make sure his mother was right.
Xian Xinghai
In China, Xian Xinghai, who is famous for his magnificent "Yellow River Chorus", also has a quirk, that is, to ensure that he eats chicken and sugar before composing music. He is a southerner, studied in France for 6 years, and is a foreign student. When he arrived in Yan'an, there was nothing wrong with living in a cave dwelling; but what he couldn't stand most was eating millet, which had no taste, was rough, and was mixed with shells. Sometimes he had nowhere to vent, and even beat the chickens flying from the next door to the house, and said negatively: "Make sure I eat chicken, otherwise I can't write a single line of melody." Later, considering that it was not easy to eat chicken in Yan'an, he retreated to the second place and asked for sugar. Later, after the special approval of the relevant departments, he bought two pounds of white sugar.
On March 26, 1939, Xian Xinghai began to work, before he crossed his legs, while grabbing a handful of white sugar into his mouth, while spitting out steaming smoke from the ultra-long cigarette pole, his wife Qian Yunling boiled earth coffee for him. In this way, after 6 consecutive days and 6 nights, this great work in the history of Chinese national music, "The Yellow River Chorus", finally came out.
Of course, regardless of the fetish, we have to admit that they are musical geniuses!