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发表于 2007-6-22 11:13:43
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原帖由 lavaflow 于 2007-6-22 08:59 发表
唉,也许他的作品确实是与时代脱节,因为根本就是超越时代的。他是当代的莫扎特。
这有一段莫扎特的介绍,其中有几段特别有意思:
http://www.music-with-ease.com/mozart.html
Mozart might be described as a sort of Peter Pan who never grew up. He was always the sublime child.(莫扎特可以被描述为一个永远也长不大的彼得·潘。他一直都是一个超群的孩子。) All his adult life he suffered from abnormal restiveness. His barber has told what a trouble it was to shave him. (他的理发师曾说,莫扎特常常忘记现实,完全沉浸在自己的世界里。)No sooner was he seated, his neck encircled with a cloth, than he became lost in thought and oblivious of all around him. Then, without a word, he would jump up, move about the room, pass often into the adjoining one, while, comb or razor in hand, the hairdresser followed him. At table it was frequently necessary to recall him to a sense of his surroundings, for his fits of abstraction would recur continually, and directly an inspiration seized him he forgot everything else. He would twist and untwist a corner of his dinner napkins, pass it mechanically under his nose, making at the same time the most extraordinary and grotesque grimaces. Musical geniuses are apt to behave in that way. Wagner sometimes stood on his head, and Beethoven washes his hands in the middle of the room and emptied the basin on the floor.
As a man, barring perhaps his improvidence, Mozart was wholly admirable, though, along with Schubert, he has suffered from the charge of being dissipated. Considering that in his short life he produced the prodigious total of 769 compositions, ranging from the very largest to the simplest song forms, his failings in this direction must have been very venial. His portraits show him to have been a handsome man, though of slight build, with an ample forehead, regular features, cleft chin, dreamy eyes, and well-arched brows. His hair, of which he was rather vain, is of course powdered and in a tie; and he wears the high-collared, large-buttoned coat, plain neckcloth, and wide-frilled shirt of the period. He was always pale, and he had a pleasant though not striking face. Under excitement his eyes lost their languid look. One who was present at the rehearsal of Figaro wrote: "I shall never forget Mozart’s little countenance when lighted up with the glowing rays of genius. It is as impossible to describe it as it would be to paint sunbeams." In some reminiscence his widow said that he "loved all the arts and possessed a taste for most of them. He could draw, and was an excellent dancer. His voice was a light tenor; his speaking tone gentle, unless when directing music, when he became loud and energetic -- would even stamp with his feet and might be heard at a considerable distance. (他的遗孀回忆说,他“热爱所有的艺术,并对其中大部分保有相当的品位。他会画画,也是一个杰出的舞者。他的声音有点尖,说话时则很温和,在指挥音乐时,他却会变得高声激扬而充满活力——他甚至会跺脚,并且人们在很远的地方都能听到他的声音)His hands were very small and delicate. His favourite amusements were bowls and billiards." To all this the enthusiastic widow added: "He was an angel, and is one in heaven now." Mozart was very particular about his clothes, and wore a good deal of embroidery and jewelry. (莫扎特对他的衣服很挑剔,穿着很多刺绣和珠宝的东西) On the whole he was perhaps insignificant-looking, but he did not like to be made aware of the fact, or to have his small stature commented on. It should perhaps be stated that he had a peculiarly-shaped ear passage, much smaller than usual, which may or may not have had a bearing on his musical sensibility. The lobe of the left ear was thicker than that of the right, a peculiarity also possessed by Haydn. |
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