An important feature of medieval culture is the construction of a transcendental world. Now this transcendental world is to serve the truth of individuality. It is a combination, a sublime narrative about the truth of secular life, that is to say, a religious sublime narrative is used to express the value of individuality. This expression in itself is of great significance, for it is in this expression that all the worldly content of the individual life, its worldly feelings, desires, etc., are spiritually uplifted. The freedom of individuality, its truth, its rights, all its worldly feelings -- passion, ambition, pain, vision of the future -- are put into the framework of a grand narrative. This series of emotions have been enhanced by the spirit, which fundamentally determines the western modern music to achieve its great achievements. It is both individual and universal and transcendental, and we must see this relationship. If Western classical music has become strange to us today, it is because we have lost the desire to put the desires of our individual hearts into an ideal world. We find it impossible, we even think it is hypocritical and untrue. We are not to blame, because the society we live in has entered into a two-dimensional flat way of living, one is the efficiency of economic growth, the other is the rationality of profit distribution. In this situation, we no longer have a lofty goal to climb. So when Nietzsche says "God is dead", this God is not just the Christian God, but the whole super-emotional world. The collapse of this super-perceptual world makes not only classical music, but also the whole aesthetic ideal of modern Western collapse. What a great loss! There really is a tension going on in this great palace of modern art. On the one hand is individuality, the demand to express oneself, the demand to speak out the universal truth that one has. On the other hand, the actual development process of modern society makes it difficult for this kind of personality to become a universal force. All the good things of personality are very vulnerable to the force of fate. Therefore, young Werther was troubled, and this is also revealed in Beethoven's music, such as the Pathetique, and Moonlight. The adagio of the first chapter of the Moonlight Sonata especially shows this feeling of the young Werther. This is no accident. Along with the rise of the whole modern civil society, classical music embodies the destiny path that this society has gone through.

An important feature of medieval culture is the construction of a transcendental world. Now this transcendental world is to serve the truth of individuality. It is a combination, a sublime narrative about the truth of secular life, that is to say, a religious sublime narrative is used to express the value of individuality. This expression in itself is of great significance, for it is in this expression that all the worldly content of the individual life, its worldly feelings, desires, etc., are spiritually uplifted. The freedom of individuality, its truth, its rights, all its worldly feelings -- passion, ambition, pain, vision of the future -- are put into the framework of a grand narrative. This series of emotions have been enhanced by the spirit, which fundamentally determines the western modern music to achieve its great achievements. It is both individual and universal and transcendental, and we must see this relationship. If Western classical music has become strange to us today, it is because we have lost the desire to put the desires of our individual hearts into an ideal world. We find it impossible, we even think it is hypocritical and untrue. We are not to blame, because the society we live in has entered into a two-dimensional flat way of living, one is the efficiency of economic growth, the other is the rationality of profit distribution. In this situation, we no longer have a lofty goal to climb. So when Nietzsche says "God is dead", this God is not just the Christian God, but the whole super-emotional world. The collapse of this super-perceptual world makes not only classical music, but also the whole aesthetic ideal of modern Western collapse. What a great loss! There really is a tension going on in this great palace of modern art. On the one hand is individuality, the demand to express oneself, the demand to speak out the universal truth that one has. On the other hand, the actual development process of modern society makes it difficult for this kind of personality to become a universal force. All the good things of personality are very vulnerable to the force of fate. Therefore, young Werther was troubled, and this is also revealed in Beethoven's music, such as the Pathetique, and Moonlight. The adagio of the first chapter of the Moonlight Sonata especially shows this feeling of the young Werther. This is no accident. Along with the rise of the whole modern civil society, classical music embodies the destiny path that this society has gone through.