Came to a city because of a song

At ten o'clock in the evening in Vienna, the gravel path in the Schönbrunn Palace Garden was plated with black and white piano keys by the moonlight. The rustling sound of the wind blowing through the century-old Bodhi trees resonates perfectly with the broken chords of the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata. In this music capital known for its golden halls, the most moving music is hidden in a goose yellow apartment on the banks of the Alser River. On a summer night in 1801, the deaf Beethoven pressed three long C flat major chords here, sealing the moonlight of Vienna forever under the piano keys. 1. Hearing the Moonlight in the Silence of Deafness Walking along the Danube Canal to Heiligenstadt, the vines on the exterior wall of Beethoven's former residence are still replicating the manuscript texture of "Moonlight". In front of the arched window on the second floor, the 30-year-old composer once pressed his forehead against the glass to feel the vibration of sound waves. He hallucinated the river flowing outside the window into silver silk woven with triplets. Before the ink of the famous Heiligenstadt Testament had dried, he wrote in a letter to a friend: "My soul will turn into moonlight, penetrating all silent eardrums." The moonlight in Vienna has a special timbre. As the first movement drifts over the Baroque dome of Graben Street like mist, the short dance in the second movement awakens on the carousel of the Prater Amusement Park, and the storm in the finale becomes quantum entangled with the thundering dome of Karlskirche. The architectural texture of this city is a three-dimensional moonlight sonata. 2. The Moonlight Wanderer’s Contemporary Pilgrimage Modern Viennese have encoded Moonlight into the rhythm of the city's breathing. When the U4 subway line passes through Heiligenstadt Station, it triggers a piano-shaped sound wave device; the touch force curve of Moonlight Sonata is engraved on the glass floor of the Danube Tower observation deck. The most amazing thing is the Beethoven Trail - when the night runner's pace coincides with the BPM of "Moonlight", the forest speakers will automatically play the corresponding music. In the coffee shop frequented by Freud, the waiters would use latte art to reproduce the Moonlight Music score; in the second-hand music shop, the yellowed first edition music score would reveal Beethoven's tears under ultraviolet light. The city is like a giant player piano, with moonlight flowing through the gaps between hammers and strings in every corner. 3. Quantum entangled moonlight memory Every September on the full moon night, Vienna will launch the "Moonlight Retranslation Project". The contemporary composer disassembled the "Moonlight Sonata" into 314,000 audio particles and allowed them to reassemble freely in the city's sound field. The shadows of the columns of Schönbrunn Palace turned into musical notations, the tram tracks became glissando tremolos, and even the south tower of Stephen's Cathedral became vertical piano keys. In the Digital Art Museum, you can use gestures to direct the holographic Beethoven and AI ensemble; on a cruise on the Danube, the water waves will change the angle of refraction of light according to the frequency of the Moonlight Song. When the moonlight at three o'clock in the morning spread over the city skyline, the entire city of Vienna turned into a resonance box, and every cell was quantum entangled with that summer night in 1801. Standing in the moonlight on Beethoven Square, I suddenly understood the ultimate romance of this city: it allows every note to gain eternal life that transcends time and space. When the Allegro of the third movement of "Moonlight" tears through the night sky, the pain of two hundred years ago and the emotion of today meet again on the strings. Those pilgrims who follow the moonlight will eventually discover in Vienna that all those who seek music are actually looking for the reflection of the soul.