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KIST Talk/사내직원기자

Einstein and Violin

Hello, everyone?
This is DJ, Me Hyun Kim from [Science; Music. ver].
It's great to meet you.

As my title says,
I'm going to talk about "Scientists" through music,
and let us think about their ways of music.


The music that I SHOW you could be vary for each of you,
because this is personal.
I hope you can define your own music after reading this.
 

The first one is Einstein's "Playing Music."

Albert Einstein.

He was born in Germany in 1879 and died in 1955. Throughout his lifetime, he had researched and made public many theories, and that is the quantum theory of light, Brownian movement theory, the special theory of relativity, theory of general relativity and so on. And finally won the Novel Prize in Physics.


I guess many of you already know far better than I do
because you're also scientist just like him.

How does his music look like?

As I said before, his music was "violin music."

Einstein with violin.

He defined violin as "Mostly delight of my life caused by Violin." 

 
Violin took great part of his life and affected enormously.
For him, violin was his friend, daughter and himself.

What kind of meaning do you have about playing musical instruments?


To my shame,
I don't have any instruments that I can play,
except I had learned how to play the piano when I was really little kid.
Well, you know, many little kids are easily tedious at it.


What does it mean by playing musical instruments?
What on earth, which aspects attract people?

Expression.
Nonverbal communication.
The gate that leads to the world of sensitivity and music.


When I think of music, I remind of those things.

First of all, I remind of swimming.

Strictly speaking, it's not "Swimming" but " submergence." 

 Just Imagine.

The more get free from gravity in water due to blocking the air,
the more clear sound it comes and feeling it flows.


Would that be this kind of feeling if I absorbed in playing instruments?

Alexander Moszkowski wrote Einstein's autobiography in 1920, and he said,
"For him the mixed emotion and unification of moral are music, nature and the God that would never vanish. "


I think this definition could be related in mother's love.
I guess music for Einstein brought many things about his mother.


His mother was a pianist, and it was her education style that
he learned how to play violin.
Later, he also played Mozarts's duet with his mother.


The conflict between his first wife Mileva and his mother,
and the memory when he was nursing his mother from gastric cancer could be influenced in the mixed emotion and unification of moral.


Perhaps, he reminded of his mother and his boyhood by retrospection of  playing the Mozart's Sonata with her.


A sonata for accompanied violin is the music could be played by Einstein.
Would you immerse yourself in his impressions ?