King's Landing in France

Chapter 113 Without You, There Would Be No Great Revolution

When Beethoven spoke, many musicians were already reading the score, and many of them even hummed the score.

The melody that An Ning is humming is the tune of the Marseillaise that An Ning is most familiar with.

Beethoven actually managed to complete the arrangement and orchestration in one afternoon while only listening to An Ning hum the main melody.

What kind of fairy speed is this?

Forget it, Le Sheng cannot be measured by common sense.

At this time, someone from the singer was also reading the lyrics. After listening to An Ning, she couldn't help feeling that something was wrong with the lyrics.

An Ning remembered that the original lyrics of the Marseillaise should have said that the enemy is attacking, the free motherland is at stake, and the citizens are armed to defend the motherland, defend freedom, and so on.

Marseillaise should not have such words as "the great leader calls us to arms", right?
So An Ning directly interrupted the actors who were reciting the lyrics: "Wait a minute! I have a problem with this lyrics!"

Everyone stopped and turned to look at An Ning.

An Ning: "Don't mention me in the lyrics, just emphasize that the murderous enemy is coming to kill the revolution, and citizens are armed in critical situations."

The lyricist Elinor Ormons twitched the corner of her mouth: "But in the Bastille, it was indeed you who led the crowd."

——How can I explain this to you?
An Ning was full of black lines, and continued: "I just happened to be in that position. Without me, someone else would stand up and lead the storming of the Bastille. The key is that the angry citizens have awakened and they want to fight for freedom. And fought.

"In fact, it was the reporter Desmoulins who first stood on the table and called on the patriots to fight. I just happened to be at the scene and knew the military, so I became the military commander of the people."

Considering that it was not easy for Beethoven and Ormons to directly say that he was pushed over by the masses, An Ning adopted this statement.

Beethoven turned his head and looked at the lyricist: "It seems that we have misunderstood."

Ormons: "We thought it was you raising your arms and shouting..."

"It's not me, so you say that, don't you grab the glory of Desmoulins, the glory of those citizens who rose up? Get rid of me, and focus the lyrics on emphasizing the people, emphasizing the patriots.

"The best point of view of the lyrics is that a patriot stepped onto the podium, calling on patriots like himself to stand up and defend freedom."

Beethoven looked deeply moved: "The center of gravity is the people, the center of gravity is the people! Speaking of which, I have never written a song praising the people. Listening to your words, I wake up like a dream!"

The poet also nodded: "When I first wrote lyrics, I also thought about writing an ode. I never thought that the target of the song would be the people themselves. Yes, think about it carefully, the reason why this revolution is great is because the people , Patriots rise up, they are the protagonists."

After hearing what these two said, An Ning breathed a sigh of relief—damn it, the Marseillaise almost became a song of praise for me, which is a crime.

The original meaning of the lyrics has been changed, maybe it will not be so contagious when singing him as a battle in the future.

Just as An Ning was thinking, Sean Ponter, the male lead singer of the troupe, started to applaud, followed by Joel, the female lead singer. After a while, everyone applauded vigorously, applauding and looking at An Ning with adoring eyes.

An Ning was very surprised: What the hell am I doing?

Sean Ponter: "Your Majesty the Lion! How noble you are, to regard fame as dung!"

Beethoven looked greatly moved: "You are greater than I imagined, even if you stop me, I must write an ode to you."

No, wait for me!
In real history, it seems that Beethoven really wrote an ode to a person in the era of the Great Revolution, and that individual was named Napoleon.

Hey guys, is the "Eroica" supposed to be written for me?

No, the "Eroica" was written when Beethoven was in his 30s, and it is a sign of the full maturity of his compositional style.

Now Beethoven is still a 20-year-old young man, and he is still very immature in composition. I don't know what he will come up with.

Ormons: "Going to change the lyrics now, it should be soon."

After speaking, he turned his head and ran towards the preparation room, took two steps and remembered something, turned his head and said, "By the way, you can throw away the lyrics just now, I will prepare new lyrics for you as soon as I finish writing them."

Sean Ponte waved his hand: "No, let's use this to familiarize ourselves with the melody first, and we can sing it immediately after you finish changing the words we changed."

Ormons nodded, and then left with confidence.

Beethoven: "Let me play the melody for everyone!"

As he spoke, he took two steps forward, came to the piano, lifted the cover, took a deep breath, and started playing.

The melody of another world mosaic immediately echoed in the small theater.

The music after Beethoven's hands seems to be more majestic, as if there are thousands of troops galloping.

When it came to the chorus, everyone in the audience sang together: "Forward! Forward! Use the dirty blood of the enemy to water our fields!"

Now maybe the entire Marseillaise has the same lyrics as in the previous time and space, only this sentence is left.

After Beethoven finished playing, the audience burst into applause again.

An Ning heard a singer sighing: "Good song, what a good song! It's full of power."

Beethoven bowed on the stage, then turned to An Ning: "What do you think, does my piece meet your expectations?"

An Ning: "It fits so well, it's perfect! You are a talented young man!"

Damn, my name is Beethoven boy, this feeling...is quite cool?
An Ning: "Then I won't disturb your rehearsal, I'll watch your performance tonight!"

Beethoven hurriedly said: "You can go to the lounge, there are coffee and afternoon tea snacks, and you can spend time there."

"Okay." An Ning said and walked towards the lounge.

**
That night, An Ning finally watched "The Storming of the Bastille", which has become a hot topic in Paris recently.

This play is said to be a short play, but in fact it covers a long period of time. It starts from the convening of the three-level parliament. The first scene is the famous scene of An Ning: shouting at the king, "Unless we use bayonets, we can't let us go away." ".

Immediately after the announcement on the tennis court, An Ning was the first to suggest that everyone go to the tennis court, and An Ning also proposed to directly form the National Assembly.

Finally, when the king mobilized the army to deal with the parliament with bayonets, An Ning resolutely captured the Bastille, and led the patriots in Paris to support the parliament with resolute actions...

Just watching this drama, you will feel that An Ning dominated the entire French Revolution, and there would be no French Revolution without An Ning.

In the end, when the patriots sang the new version of the Marseillaise together, although the new lyrics were no longer peaceful, the image of tranquility must be lingering in the minds of those who have just watched the drama.

This drama is popular in Paris, no wonder the crowd shouted An Ning's name so frantically during the Liberty Day.

After watching the drama, An Ning's heart was broken.

This play continues to be performed in Paris, and my reputation is going to break through the sky.

So he went to the backstage to find Beethoven and other main creators: "Your play is too inconsistent with the facts. Let me tell you the real process!"

Then An Ning told the whole process from the beginning without any concealment.

Then Beethoven shook his head and said, "I know you are very humble, but this is too much. How could you be forcibly carried into the Bastille? Even if you said it yourself, I can't believe it!"

The playwright also said: "We interviewed a lot of witnesses, and this play was written based on their accounts. Do you actually want to say that those witnesses are exaggerating?"

They are exaggerating!

Sean Ponter came out to smooth things over: "Okay, at most we will come out and say something at the curtain call after the play, saying that this play is adapted from many people who have witnessed it, and there may be exaggerations. Humility is a virtue, we should Satisfy Mr. Frost's request."

I'm not humble... Forget it, I'm tired, let me destroy it.

An Ning gave up.

Anyway, I'm going to go to the Conta to hide. If Paris is famous, it doesn't matter.

(End of this chapter)