贝多芬的故乡波恩城离法国很近,法国大革命攻打巴士底牢狱的炮声,给19岁的贝多芬带来了自由、平等、博爱的理想。1789年5月,贝多芬到波恩大学旁听哲学课,深受其文学教授E·施奈德尔的影响,有感于这位教授的革命精神与热情,他创作了一首合唱曲《谁是自由人》,表达了他要把自己的一切贡献给自由的事业,这时的贝多芬已经成为一个反对封建制度,拥护民主共和的进步青年了。但是由于当时德国经济的落后,政治上的保守,正像马克思所说:“德国人只能在政治上思考别的民族所做的”,所以贝多 Beethoven’s hometown of Bonn was close to France. The French Revolution attacked the gunshot in Bastille and brought 19-year-old Beethoven the ideal of freedom, equality and fraternity. In May 1789 Beethoven went to Bonn University to attend a philosophical course. Influenced by his professor of literature, E. Schneider, he was touched by the professor’s revolutionary spirit and passion. He wrote a chorus entitled “Who is free People ”and expressed that he should make all his contributions to the cause of freedom. At this time, Beethoven has become a progressive youth who opposed the feudal system and supported the democratic republic. However, due to the backwardness of Germany’s economy at that time and its political conservativeness, just as Marx put it: “The Germans can only think politically about what other nations do,” so Bedouin