BEP 17 – Meetings: Supporting your Position (Part I)

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英语杂谈：41 Three days of meetings

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英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 09

The great composer's romantic life was much less successful. He gave piano lessons to many women of noble birth. In 1801, he dedicated the Moonlight Sonata to one of these aristocratic pupils whom he loved. Her name was Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 03

Beethoven's mother died of consumption. The inscription says that she was such a good, kind mother to me and indeed my best friend. His father became more and more alcholic till it finally became the case that, Beethoven had to ask for his father's s

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 05

The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3, in Vienna was a fairly light instrument, and it was very well suited to the kind of pianism that were most conventional in Vienna at that time. Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted bigger pianos,

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 06

Beethoven's music was controversial; it could be interpreted in two quite extreme ways as, as very bad or very good, therefore perhaps much more so than other music, it was in need of framing, it needed a kind of protective envelope, that could intro

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 08

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英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 11

The Fifth Symphony is really something absolutely new. The symphony starts with da da da dathats no music, it is political agitation, so it is like a manifestation of ideas. Erits not good the way we live, its not good, and, then you, umat one moment

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英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 12

Immediately after the concert with Napoleon once again threatening to invade Vienna, Beethoven began another colossal work with military themes. For the first time, Beethoven did not play at the premiere, he was too deaf. He never finished another pi

英语听力：Beethoven 贝多芬 - 17

Money was also the motivation for writing the late string quartets. Prince Gelatin Commission Wattznard regarded it as the greatest music Beethoven ever wrote. To many contemporaries, this strange music was a definite proof that the composer had lost