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00:004th Episode
00:05The 4th episode.
00:079 years after the first episode,
00:09with the passionate support of the audience,
00:12the 4th episode is about to begin.
00:14A play is about to begin.
00:18Even if my ears can't hear,
00:20as long as there's music in my head,
00:22I'm immortal!
00:24Even though he lost his hearing,
00:26the great musician who created many masterpieces,
00:30which are said to be the treasure of mankind,
00:32Ludwig van Beethoven.
00:35Effort?
00:37I don't need such vague words!
00:40The genius love and despair that shake the soul.
00:44How was that masterpiece born?
00:48Let's sing a more wonderful song!
00:52Based on a true story,
00:54the story of human, Beethoven.
00:59The title is...
01:01No. 9, A Special Melody.
01:05The actor of Beethoven is...
01:07Cologne Inagaki.
01:09It's absurd!
01:10How is he the same as me?
01:13But he's the emperor's son!
01:15What do you mean?
01:17There's no such man!
01:19What did you say?
01:24His acting is...
01:26amazing.
01:30It's like Beethoven has come back to life.
01:35He makes the audience enthusiastic
01:38and wraps the theater with emotion.
01:49In November, they began to move
01:52to bring new emotion to the masterpiece.
01:59One person who gave a passionate look to the rehearsal.
02:06Pianist Takuma Ishii.
02:10He graduated from the Wien National University of Music
02:14with the highest score of all time,
02:17and he is still active in the world based in Wien.
02:23And now, guided by Beethoven,
02:26he meets and talks with the actors and musicians.
02:31People often write letters to Beethoven.
02:38Don't you feel the power of the music?
02:43Isn't it amazing?
02:45I'm surprised.
02:46The mystery is revealed at the end of No.9.
02:52What is the impact of Beethoven and No.9?
02:57Why does this work continue to be performed?
03:01Let's take a closer look at the charm of the masterpiece.
03:05Stage, No.9, Immortal Melody
03:10Goro Inagaki and Beethoven
03:14What do you think of Beethoven?
03:17Is there anything different from what you used to have?
03:21He has the same image as you think.
03:24At first, I had an image of him as a perverted, stubborn, and difficult person.
03:31But in fact, he is very delicate, emotional, full of love, and strong in love.
03:38It may be rude to say this, but I think he is a charming person.
03:45I think he is a person who has a lot of people around him.
03:51That's right.
03:52Even though he is lonely, he is surrounded by people.
03:59Two brothers, Kaspar and Nikolaus.
04:02Beethoven lived with his brothers in Vienna and took care of them.
04:09Brother Louis wants to manage us completely.
04:13I want to do everything as I want.
04:15Kaspar and I are very grateful.
04:18If possible, can you stay with us a little longer?
04:23Beethoven has several lovers throughout his life.
04:28One of them is a noble woman, Josephine.
04:33Marrying you means becoming a commoner.
04:37Although their hearts were connected, the noble and the commoner were struggling with love of different statuses.
04:46What kind of piano do you play?
04:49Beethoven has some friends who have deepened their faith over time.
04:55Streicher, who runs a piano workshop in Vienna.
04:59It was the most wonderful song.
05:03Nanette, who made Beethoven's favorite piano, responded to the request of the genius.
05:10She is a good understander of Beethoven, such as making a piano that can change the tone.
05:16She has been supporting him.
05:19Even though it's the same piano, the tone changes dramatically.
05:22You also played Mozart and Haydn, right?
05:25And the key person in No. 9 is the original character of this story, Nanette's sister, Maria.
05:36No matter what you do, your ears are life for a musician.
05:40She became a maid of Beethoven's family and later supported the genius's life as his secretary.
05:48But your music is the best.
05:53She is an artist, so she pursues her own art without caring about what kind of music people want to hear or what people think.
06:09But Beethoven is different.
06:11He is a person who receives a lot of attention.
06:16If he were alive now, he would definitely be the person who makes the most advanced music.
06:23He is conscious of the most advanced music.
06:25That's right.
06:26Rather, he has destroyed the form of music so far.
06:30What did Beethoven break?
06:34Two pianists, who are world-famous on the stage of No. 9, play masterpieces according to the story.
06:43The pianist talks about Beethoven in this way.
06:48The fact that he challenged himself for his whole life can be clearly seen by looking at his works.
06:59For example, the composition of the music, including the piano technique,
07:04he forms such things, but he also destroys them and makes new ones.
07:10Each of his works is full of his thoughts and energy.
07:18I think he is a man who opened the door to the next era in the history of Western music.
07:24In that sense, he is full of new things.
07:28In fact, Beethoven was the first to incorporate the chorus into the public music.
07:35In addition, what is very different from other composers is that he continued to make the music he wanted to make freely,
07:42regardless of whether he was a royal or a nobleman.
07:46And he created a number of masterpieces and held concerts.
07:53In other words, he became a superstar even though he was a freelancer.
08:01He is the first composer in the world.
08:04I really think that Beethoven is an entertainer.
08:08Entertainment is about making everyone happy and moved.
08:16In that sense, he incorporated the chorus into the public music.
08:21It is a natural thing now, but at that time, he incorporated something like a jumping tool.
08:27He made the chorus wait until the fourth movement.
08:31I think he is a great entertainer that he came up with the idea of making everyone happy at the end.
08:40What Beethoven broke was common sense.
08:44He overturned the concept of fixed, released the art of music from the powerful,
08:50and made the people enthusiastic with the power of music.
08:55What I need today is gold!
08:57Beethoven, who has challenged himself to new things one after another.
09:01It doesn't just stop at composing.
09:04I'm Johann Nepomuk Merzell.
09:07Inventor, Merzell.
09:10That metronome is also his invention as a real person.
09:15And Beethoven is known as a composer who used the metronome in earnest for the first time in the music market.
09:25In addition, Beethoven can be said to be a pioneer who printed music scores and spread his own music to the world.
09:40The fact that he appeared as a partner in No. 9 moved Beethoven's music,
09:45and he was a real businessman who aimed at business.
09:50And the genius who can do business is different from normal people in every way.
09:59I'm the worst person.
10:01I'm forgiven because I had the talent for music, but I'm a useless person.
10:07He was short-tempered and arrogant.
10:09When there was something he didn't like,
10:12he immediately shouted it out and made the people around him angry.
10:20I'm very grateful to be played by Beethoven this time.
10:24It's hard.
10:26I think it would be hard if he was angry.
10:29That's right. I don't usually get angry.
10:32Mr. Ishii is also usually calm.
10:34That's right.
10:35It's hard to express your feelings like that.
10:40I'm said to be a typical person.
10:43When I play, I have my own routine.
10:46If I keep up with it, it will change.
10:49But I felt that a lot in Mr. Goro.
10:51Really?
10:52I saw the rehearsal.
10:54The rehearsal room is not a large space.
10:57When I was sitting in the seat and said,
10:59I'm going to start now, the change was amazing.
11:03Really?
11:04It's amazing.
11:06In recent years, he has continued to appear in human dramas and socialist movies.
11:12He is said to have entered the period of retirement.
11:15Koro Inagaki.
11:18I wonder if it's really Beethoven.
11:23Mr. Inagaki is completely different.
11:26The moment he became Beethoven,
11:29he can only be seen as Beethoven.
11:32It's not an act of copying and painting Beethoven from the outside.
11:40Mr. Inagaki is a part of Beethoven in himself.
11:46I feel that he is extracting and multiplying the part that is particular to something and inflating it in himself.
11:57I will definitely make my music recognized in Europe and the world.
12:03Is it called making a role?
12:05Does it change?
12:06Does the first and fourth times change?
12:10I think it's not good to follow the previous success experience
12:17because you can't keep the freshness in yourself.
12:24You have to be able to close your eyes over and over again.
12:29It's the same with the piano.
12:31I'm sure you all close your eyes.
12:34If you do that, your mind doesn't work, but you're talking to yourself.
12:41It's dangerous.
12:43You're not listening to what the other person is saying.
12:46You can do it more and more mechanically.
12:49If you do it four times, you'll get used to it.
12:52I always try to do it with a fresh feeling.
12:56I'm getting used to it now.
12:59I've done it about 90 times.
13:05What is the biggest attraction of the four times?
13:12I think it's the overall power.
13:17The story development is the same.
13:20But I think it's the power of music that Beethoven created.
13:29I still have a feeling of zogut at the moment when the piano is playing.
13:36First of all, I'm being helped by the power of music.
13:40I'm being pushed.
13:41I'm still being swayed by Beethoven.
13:44I can't grasp it.
13:47Even if I pursue it, it's a very distant existence.
13:52I'm impressed right now.
13:55With those straight eyes.
13:59It's the power of music.
14:01Don't you feel the power of music?
14:08I often write letters to Beethoven.
14:13What I've learned from Wien is that composers don't finish their creative activities by writing music.
14:26The music is introduced to the work only when someone plays it.
14:32That's why we pianists play a role in Beethoven's creative activities.
14:41That's great.
14:42That's what I think.
14:45But the difficult thing is that as a pianist, you need a bit of essence to play Beethoven's music.
14:53Your own?
14:54That's right.
14:56Otherwise, Beethoven's music will be the same no matter who plays it.
15:00Of course, that might be good, but that's why Beethoven has a lot of margin.
15:05A lot of margin?
15:07For example, the composer Debussy has very fine instructions.
15:11Yes, it's very fine.
15:13There's one instruction for every two bars, but Beethoven's instructions are different.
15:17He leaves the instructions to the composer.
15:20Is that so?
15:22That's right.
15:23It's a margin.
15:24If you make it, it's not over.
15:25That's right.
15:26That's why it goes beyond time.
15:31Even if my ears can't hear anymore, my life as a musician will not end!
15:37Beethoven continues to complete his works with the performers who resonate with his music.
15:45If that's the case, the No. 9 stage will be one of Beethoven's works.
15:53And Beethoven may still be alive.
16:07The most attractive thing I saw this time was the live performance.
16:14The sound comes from both sides of the piano.
16:20There are two pianos.
16:21There are two pianos, and the chorus is also live.
16:23That's right.
16:24Isn't it amazing?
16:26I was surprised.
16:27I was surprised.
16:29It's amazing.
16:32I feel like my body is floating.
16:34I feel like my body is floating.
16:40In No. 9, 20 composers, who are highly regarded in the world of opera, appear as casts and resonate with their voices.
16:5420 composers and two pianists.
16:57Musicians on stage who play Beethoven's life.
17:01They can be said to be another main character in this work.
17:08Music, play, and various elements at the same time.
17:14It's a very luxurious time when I'm watching.
17:18I'm so excited.
17:21It's the best. It's a live chorus.
17:25I want you to feel the power that you can only feel in the theater.
17:34And Goro Inagaki is the one who leads the professional musicians on stage.
17:43It's wonderful.
17:44It's wonderful.
17:45I can only see Beethoven at the end of the performance.
17:50I feel like I'm going to cry.
17:55I thought it was very interesting.
17:57It's not just a major work.
18:01This song is used.
18:03No. 12.
18:05I like it.
18:06I really like it.
18:08No. 30.
18:09It's like Bocca.
18:11No. 30's scene.
18:14I remember that scene.
18:17During the first rehearsal, the director, Shirai, was listening to the piano sonata.
18:26I was listening to it and watching the play.
18:30I see.
18:31I tried it.
18:32That's why I felt a sense of unity.
18:35Really?
18:36The position of the song used and the feeling of Beethoven's present and the background of that era are exactly the same.
18:46I'm glad.
18:47At the end, No. 32.
18:49It's like Beethoven's last sonata.
18:53I really like that, too.
18:56Shirai Akira, the director, not only meticulously created the musical composition.
19:03Shirai-san is also strict with the details.
19:11I've been watching the play in front of the mirror for a long time.
19:19I'd like to respond to that.
19:22It's our fourth time.
19:24I'd like to do it again with a new feeling of making a new work.
19:29It's the fourth performance, but there's no dust or dust.
19:36They were trying to look back at all the scenes and create even more emotion.
19:46And the story is the story of father Johan, the darkness of his childhood that torments the genius.
19:56The police officer Fritz, who is confused by the times and confronts Beethoven.
20:04Beethoven's wishes bring tragedy.
20:07The suffering of Carl.
20:10Various thoughts and emotions are mixed up.
20:13We're heading to the birth of that great masterpiece, Daiku.
20:18What is this?
20:22Beethoven's greatest mystery.
20:25In the despair of losing his hearing, how did he create a song of joy?
20:33That mystery will be revealed at the end of No. 9.
20:38Let's talk about it.
20:42I've been talking to you about a lot of things.
20:45What's surprising is that you were composing without hearing your ears.
20:51I can't hear my ears anymore, so I'm writing a public song.
20:57As a musician, it's impossible.
21:03Is that so?
21:05It's impossible.
21:07I think it's absolutely impossible.
21:09But I think it's possible because the musician has the Doremi-Hasola guidance in his head.
21:17Public songs are composed by 50 or 60 orchestras.
21:24I imagine the harmony when 60 orchestras are lined up.
21:30I've been writing with this as a countermeasure.
21:33This is absolutely impossible for a normal person.
21:37Why?
21:39How did you make it? Have you ever thought about it?
21:42That mystery will be revealed at the end of No. 9.
21:50The sound is gone.
21:52Beethoven whispers that the sound is gone.
21:55What happened at that time?
21:59Beethoven felt that kind of thing in that situation.
22:03I thought he was composing with the orchestra.
22:07I got goose bumps.
22:09I got goose bumps at the last chorus of the orchestra.
22:16I can't forget that.
22:18Music never ends.
22:20I was really moved while all the performers were singing.
22:25Everything will end.
22:28My heart trembles no matter how many times I do it.
22:33With joy.
22:35I think it's a work with universal value, just like Beethoven's music.
22:41The stage is No. 9.
22:44The legendary emotional curtain rises.