Ludwig van Beethoven
The Moonlight Sonata
One evening Beethoven was walking in a street when he suddenly stopped outside a little house.He heard someone playing his Sonata F,
From the small house came a girl's voice:"I can't play any more.This piece of music is so difficult to play.How I wish I could hear Beethoven himself play it!"
"Ah,my sisiter,but we are so poor,"said a young man."We cannot afford to buy tickets to the concert."
"Forget it,"said the girl."I just said for fun."
Beethoven knocked at the door and it opened.In the dim candle light a girl was sitting before a pian.A young man was making shoes by a table near her.
"Pardon me,"said Beethoven,"but I heard the music.You wish to hear..."He stopped.To his surprise he found the girl was blind."Excuse me.who taught you to play the music?You learned it by ear?"
"I heard the women next door playing this music.I listened to her outside her window for a long time."
Beethoven said no more.He sat down before the piano.The moon shone brightly in through the window.He looked up to the sky for a while.Then he said to himself,"I'll play a Sonata to the Moonlight!"He began to play.
The girl and the young man listened to him silently near the piano.They both lost themselves in the beautiful music.
After Beethoven went back home,he worked all night writting down the new piece of music.He called it the Moonlight Sonata.
摘自贝多芬传