One day, the first violinist received a letter from Albert Einstein. The letter reads: Dear Professor: There is an urgent matter, and the husband of the second violinist wants to talk to you about it.
The letter is not addressed, and who is the second violinist? It turned out that she was Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, who was a Bavarian princess before she was married, and was Einstein's hometown and friend. More precisely, she was a musical friend of Albert Einstein. Einstein visited the queen every time he came to Belgium. The queen was a man of many talents, she loved science, literature, and preferred the violin. She lived a simple life, was open-minded, unpretentious, approachable, and loved by Belgians. Many people called her the Red Queen.
On one occasion, the royal Belgian car was ordered to pick up Professor Einstein at the train station. The driver waited for Einstein to get off the train at the door of the first-class car, but when the passengers were gone, he didn't see Einstein's shadow. The driver of the car had to return to the palace empty, reporting to the queen that the professor had not come.
Half an hour later, however, Eins, wearing an old raincoat and carrying his beloved violin, came to the Queen's summer palace. It turned out that Einstein did not take the first-class bus, he took the third-class bus. The professor always preferred to take the third-class bus, because it would allow him to blend in with the passengers of the third-class bus and avoid being recognized and causing trouble.
After getting off the third-class carriage, he walked out of the station freely, asking for directions as he went. By the time he reached the palace hall, there were already three people sitting in it, anxiously waiting for his first violinist. As soon as Einstein arrived, the quartet began. Albert Einstein served as principal violinist. Her Majesty the Queen is the second violinist.
Albert Einstein was not only a great scientist, but also an excellent violinist with a deep knowledge of music. So how did he start learning music?
Einstein's mother, Pauline, was a virtuous and educated mother. She loved music and was Einstein's music teacher. Once, my mother sat at the piano and played the keys softly, and the melody played like a babbling stream. At the end of the song, she looked back and saw that little Einstein was listening to the piano with his head tilted! He was so fascinated to hear it. Young mothers feel that their children have a strong sense of music. She happily said to little Einstein: Look at your serious appearance. Look like a college professor! Feed! Dear little one. Why don't you speak? Little Einstein was immersed in the world of music and did not answer a word. He was only 3 years old at the time.
Albert Jr. (Einstein's name) began formal violin studies at the age of 6. His young mind had already entered into a beautiful melody. The traditional method of teaching the violin is not an artistic pleasure, but hard labor and corporal punishment. Even repetitive, mechanical bow and fingering exercises for hours on end.
Sometimes little Albert was in trouble.
Seven years later, he understood the mathematical structure of harmony and form. He recess to discuss the technique and subtlety of playing Mozart's works. The strings and heartstrings resonated together, and his lifelong career in science and art began.
Einstein learned the technique of the violin not through a formal violin tutorial, but through Mozart's sonatas. He believed that love was the best teacher, and from then on he fell in love with Mozart. The violin also became Einstein's lifelong companion and goddess of joy in his scientific career. She dispels melancholy and hustle and bustle for this scientist, drives away chaos and evil, and she adds beauty and harmony to the scientist.
Violin in scientific debatesWhenever Einstein was invited to a physics symposium by Leiden University in the Netherlands, Einstein always loved to stay at the house of his friend, the great physicist Ehrenfest. Albert Einstein came from Berlin to the Netherlands, from the noisy city to the old and quiet town, and it was really quiet and pleasant. When he heard the windmills around him spinning leisurely in the wind and singing the song of Yiyi, his heart was full of poetry.
At Ehrenfest's home, the violin also often participated in the fierce scientific debates of scientists. Ehrenfest and Einstein were arguing fiercely over a certain issue, and Ehrenfest was so agile and so good at grasping the essence of the problem. If he finds even the slightest hole in Einstein's words, he will seize on it at once. Of course, Einstein was not a second-hand either. When they are red in the face of a war of words, they want to rest for a while.
Ehrenfest and Planck are both excellent pianists. Albert Einstein was a violinist. Einstein, accompanied by these two physicists, played the melody of the small tanqin that adds a lot of special brilliance.
While they were playing, Einstein stopped abruptly. He doesn't pull. Then he took the bow of the violin and struck the strings of the violin hard, which he meant to make Ehrenfest stop the piano accompaniment. Einstein began his scientific monologue again. Ehrenfest leaned on the piano and listened attentively to his monologue. He was like a hunter in the forest, waiting for Einstein's loophole with a shotgun. Once he is allowed to catch the loophole, Ehrenfest will shoot a volley of bullets like a hunter. Sometimes when Einstein's mind hit a block, he would rush to the piano as well and play a clear major chord with a few fingers. Strong and powerful, play these three chords repeatedly.
Boring! Boring! Boring! Albert Einstein was knocking on God's door. It's as if asking nature: What should I do?!
Sometimes, bounce and bounce, God's door opens for both of them. The two friends smiled mildly at each other from the polemic.
Violin recitalIn 1933, Hitler threw the whole of Germany into disaster, and German refugees, especially German Jews, fled. Einstein happened to be in California at that time. On March 10, a reporter from the New York World Telegraph visited Albert Einstein.
The next day Einstein came to New York and met with the German consul in the United States. The consul said to Einstein: "Mr. Professor, I saw your conversation yesterday to the reporter of the New York World Telegraph. This conversation shook Berlin. What are you going to do?
I don't have any plans!
So where are you going?
I don't know. However, I won't be back in Germany! Einstein replied firmly.
It's better to go back to Germany! The Consul General sat up straight on the couch. He went on to say: Now that the National Socialist Workers' Party is in power, the new regime is just for every German citizen. Your view is one-sided. Mr. Professor, we know that you are innocent and that the German government will not do anything to you.
At this time, the consul general's secretary walked out of the office, and only Einstein and the consul were left in the room. The cold look on the consul's face suddenly disappeared, and he leaned over to Einstein and whispered in his ear: "Mr. Professor, now we can say a few words as friends." Your decision not to go back to Germany was the right one. But you can't go back to Germany! You are the most famous Jew in the world, and Hitler was the most fanatical and criminal anti-Semite in the world. You have advocated peace, democracy, and progress all your life, and Hitler hated peace, democracy, and progress, and if you go back to Germany, they will never let you go. They'll take you to a concentration camp, hang you up, beat you, and drag you down the road by the hair, and those gangsters can do anything!
A few days later, the Einsteins boarded a ship bound for Belgium. Albert Einstein looked at it from afar, and his heart was like the turbulent waves of the Atlantic. He decided to hold a violin recital on the ship and use his violin to raise money for the persecuted Jews.
The concert began. He waved his skillful bow, and his nimble fingers danced on the fingerboard of the violin. One moment it was a fierce jumping bow, another moment a deep chord, another moment a delicate kneading string, and another a sonorous Stecart. The sound of his violin drifts with the waves of the Atlantic. However, who knew at this time that this was a violinist who had practiced while studying the theory of relativity!
At a lecture in the Czech Republic, in 1921, Albert Einstein was invited by the Czechs to Prague. For Einstein, this place was a rebirth. Prague has been transformed into the capital of the new Czechoslovak Republic.
In the physics laboratory of the University of Prague, portraits of Newton and Einstein hang side by side. It was a great honor for the university students to see the portraits on the walls every day to be next to them.
That afternoon, Albert Einstein gave a lecture on the theory of relativity. Albert Einstein talked endlessly, what length and mass can vary with velocity, energy is proportional to the square of velocity, the curvature of time and space, and so on. There was silence in the room, but few could actually understand it. However, everyone in the audience felt that being in the same hall as Albert Einstein was a moment that they would never forget.
A reception will be held after the lecture. It was Einstein's turn to speak: Gentlemen! I've already said a lot about the theory of relativity today. Now I'm going to play you a famous violin song! This may be easier to understand. Or a little more interesting.
In this symposium, which was discussing the advanced science of the twentieth century, the great physicist played a harmonious classical music with his fingers, and the participants were unexpectedly treated to a unique flavor. His performance was met with round and round of applause.
