Devzak and Bach's Personality

Xingfu Xiao

Scientist Einstein once said: "For Bach, there is only listening, playing, loving and respecting, and not saying a word." Bach is really great and vast. His music has influenced people's artistic world and spiritual world for 300 years, which cannot be described in words.

Bach means stream in German, which is a trickle and never stops. It seems that the original intention of this German sentence suddenly explained everything about Bach, which made me suddenly enlightened.

Really valuable music, no matter how weak it looks, is just a gurgling stream. It can not only be buried, but also not grow old with time. On the contrary, it can be evergreen.

Creek, a trickle, just flows, flows, flows for 300 years and still flows. How vigorous this stream should be. When we didn't find it, it never stopped flowing, but at that time it was covered by trees, weeds and rocks, or on that high mountain top, we couldn't see it for the time being.

The river may swell for a while and the waves will roll up thousands of piles of snow. But rivers will freeze, stop flowing and even dry up for a while. No, the stream will always be clear and shallow, and it will never freeze, cut off or dry up because of the season and external reasons. We can't see it, not because it doesn't exist, but because there is something wrong with our eyes: myopia, hyperopia, amblyopia, color blindness, cataracts, blindness, or just looking down at the raging river, or just willing to look down at several high waterfalls in thousands of feet, and we don't notice the existence of the stream at all. The stream is right beside us, maybe under our feet. It passed through the gravel and grass, disappeared into the jungle and mountain stream, and walked where no one could even fly.

On the steep cliff, it still flows; In a remote corner, it is still flowing; In the sunshine and moonlight, it still flows; Under the attack of wind, frost, rain and snow, it still flows ... The water in the stream will not be wild and unrestrained, and will not be shocked by passion, but it will be touching, not violent and cold, not easily falling branches, and not falling leaves like the spray of a waterfall. Instead, it will always be small but flow quietly forward. It has the unique stability, symmetry, tranquility, serenity, sacredness and lasting beauty of this baroque style. Its beauty lies not in its volume, but in its infiltration into the eternal mind and years, just like carving it into the annual rings in the heart of a tree. It is not a glass of liquor, which blooms like fireworks and burns like fire when swallowed; That's just your tears. When you need it most, it hangs around your neck like a pearl necklace or moistens your heart quietly.

This is the character and character of Xiaoxi.

This is Bach's character and character.

Some people say that Bach is great and called Bach "the father of music". It is said that almost no great musician who appeared after Bach was not nourished by him. Beethoven, Schumann, Linsky Kosakov, Raigur, Schoenberg, Shostakovich ...

Greatness is not always majestic and high-spirited, like a temple. Greatness can be a mountain or a river, but greatness can also be a stream. Bach is such a clean stream.

Water, when the world is cold, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the mountains were razed to the ground, the rivers lost their surging, and the rivers changed their channels, but as always, the streams still trickled, clear and quiet. That's enough. This is the greatness of streams.

Listening to Bach's music, you will always see such a quiet, serene and clear stream flowing in front of you.

On a quiet night like water, Bach's music (those mass and organ music) is the spire church under the blue night sky like malachite, bathed in the bright moonlight. Not far from the church, there flows such a stream, which is long-sleeved and good at dancing, winding into the night, with the silent and slender shadow of the church and the silver light of moonlight jumping on the stream. ...

On sunny days, Bach's music (chorus and hymn of the Virgin Mary) is an endless Yuan Ye with lush grass and fragrant wildflowers. The warm atmosphere is rising, and a group of white clouds flowing like white sheep are connected with the distant horizon. From the hazy horizon, there comes such a clear stream, which shines with golden light, but brings cordial greetings and gentle calls like dreams. ...

(Excerpted from music notes, with deletion)

Note [Bach (1685- 1750] is a German composer. The main vocal works are: Mass in B minor, Passion of Matthew, etc. The main instrumental works are: piano music collection with equal rhythm, French suite, English suite, fugue art, music dedication and so on. He is the founder of modern sonata and is called "the father of music".

Dvorak in my heart.

Xinfengnian

I dare to call myself dvorak's bosom friend there, but I have a good relationship with his works. Ever since I read Meng Kai, I have been fascinated by the New World Symphony. For half a century, he has read a lot of the essence of his instrumental works, and he is never tired of reading them, but he is more and more emotional. It is said that in the west, other excellent works (even works worthy of appreciation) are eclipsed because of the "transitional performance" made by New World. Then I am really lucky and predestined. So take this opportunity to commemorate his growth in 150 and talk about dvorak in my heart.

I'm afraid there are not many people who love music but don't like watching New World. But this topic is not convenient to start. I have been wandering among them for decades, and I am afraid I have a thousand words to say. However, I can't help but say some of the worst feelings.

When I first heard Adagio, I felt like I was in a vast wasteland. Broad and profound scenery and feelings. It seems that from time and space, I remotely sensed the immigrant sentiment when I first set foot on the new continent. However, later I saw Sister Carrie by Dreside, in which the heroine came to the big city alone. Somehow, when listening to this introduction, it seems elusive, and we can compare and confirm each other! Then, when dvorak crossed the ocean and came to a foreign land, he was also filled with emotion, right?

There are countless intoxicating aphorisms in the "New World". There are also those polyphones hidden in the inner voice and bass, like stars all over the sky, where to count them clearly! Some people say that anyone who can hear the tune clearly can be regarded as a attentive listener. I suggest you prepare a pocket music score, read it first, then listen carefully, and then dig out the details you don't understand. Only by chewing slowly can you get more enjoyment. Otherwise, how can you live up to the painstaking efforts of the master?

The first movement has an important theme, which is not only beautiful in tune, but also like a black folk song "Carriage Falling from the Sky" with unique accompaniment. It plays in the bass area of the flute, feeling timid and pale. Like a slave who was bullied and had nowhere to sue!

In the "wide board" movement, the passage in C minor was changed, and the flute and oboe wailed. Violin and clarinet swallow and cry. The weak vibration of viola and cello is a sigh for the funeral participants, the dead and their own misfortune. At the same time, we also feel that if the composer is not emotional, how can he write this moving movement? It is not so much a sentiment, but actually a sentiment!

When I read Huang Zi's works on Brahms, I began to pay attention to the "symphony" in symphonic music. The "symphony" in "New World" is really wonderful! What an exciting symphony. It's not only a great motive force of human creation, but a passionate eruption with thoughts and worries. This is particularly impressive in the last chapter of New World (especially from section 227 to E mediation). Every time I hear it, it floats in the climax of the music stream, incoherent. I just sigh for "listening"!

After being familiar with the "new world", it seems that I have come to another world to listen to his symphony No.8 in G major for the first time. The former conveyed his emotional communication with the people of the New World, while the latter made me feel his love for his homeland and people. He let me lie in Bohemia and breathe the fragrance of Yuan Ye in the forest there.

Then, the sixth symphony in D major dazzled me again! Where did this man get such endless happiness? (It should be noted that although he takes folk music as the soil, he never directly adopts folk tunes. ) and his masterpiece, a youthful spirit almost flooded in. From the beginning of the first movement to the end of the fourth movement, the music flowed to the end, and the momentum never weakened, which made people depressed!

What is particularly intoxicating is a slow motion, an adagio comparable to the wide board in the "New World". On the subject of only three initials, he performed a poem "Yuefu" with both emotion and literature. The development of music concept is as vivid and natural as the flowing of a mountain stream, with ups and downs. It gradually developed into a torrent of music in Wang Yang, and the listeners were already drunk!

In the 1960s, Czech records kept coming, and I heard "No.1" to "No.3" in its nine symphonies. Unfortunately, British music critic Wei Tuo rated Symphony No.7 in B minor as the most profound one. He didn't buy a record, but listened to it several times on the radio.

It is interesting to see Wei Tuo's comments on dvorak's works in Symphony Music Analysis. Although his books are not as popular as before, I would rather listen to his warm, frank and funny praise and criticism than go to see the cold anatomy. Wei Tuo, once called a bald donkey by the philosopher Wittgenstein, is a person who has contributed to the "music score".

Not only do I have a newcomer who came into contact with the "new world" when he first read music, but I have also heard his chamber music works: string quartet in F major for a long time. And chamber music works are the window of a musician's inner world!

This work nicknamed "Black" is the twin brother of "New World". Both of them were born when he was the dean of the American Conservatory of Music. So the foreign voices of blacks and Indians are mixed with the mother tongue of Bohemians. Strangely, many people who love dvorak in Philharmonic don't even notice or even know that there is such wonderful and easy-to-get music in the world-it is especially difficult to explain it in simple language in the difficult field of chamber music!

I still cherish a "black" CD and an original album, which I bought from Beethoven's hometown and dvorak's hometown in the 1960s when "Dayang Valley" was regarded as poisonous weeds. They record my persistent pursuit of "black people". As early as the 1940s, I happened to meet you on the radio once, so I can't forget it!

People say that he wrote some music that was not the best for the violin, but contributed his best music to the cello.

Really! Even old Austera played his violin concerto, which didn't impress me deeply. I often miss cello concerto in B minor, solo by casals and conductor of NBC Symphony Orchestra in Tuscany. Later, after listening to the new records played by several famous musicians, I was always afraid of losing my memory of these two anti-fascist masters.

Dvorak's masterpiece is both a concerto and a symphony. Especially the adagio movement, a generous elegy of cello solo, and an orchestral music against the moon, they laughed and sang together, one integrated mass, weaving a roll of changeable and flowing magnificence. In fact, he is on the other side of the ocean. Weaving thousands of worries about dating in the old country!

It is not difficult to hear that the author who is addicted to homesickness is a little reluctant to end. In fact, he also has this expression in other works. This is the expression of feelings, the most touching.

This also made me suddenly realize that space is not easy for me to survive alone, so I must write an ending!

But the two works I will talk about later are not the least important. On the contrary, listening to music is like seeing this person and his heart. They are such works.

The serenade of strings in E major expresses a very sincere sense of happiness. It sounds like listening to your good friend talk about his happy family. Affectionate as honey, but how simple and straightforward!

Nature, Life and Love is a trilogy he wrote at the age of 50. He obviously wants to confess his reflection on the universe and life when "my life is already halfway through" (Dante's Divine Comedy). The title of this work has been changed several times. Nature was once called "loneliness" or "summer night". The second part is entitled Carnival. The third part is marked Othello. These are all important "guiding routes" for music readers.

Carnival is one of the most popular movies. It is said that there has been a "transition" like the "new world". My first contact with carnival was before I heard the other two overtures.

Nature is not a landscape painting seen by outsiders, but the praise of a person who is intoxicated with natural beauty in the silence of summer night. Is this the so-called "my realm" in Wang Guowei's "Ci Hua on Earth"? But people and scenery are in harmony.

In the carnival, I am not a person who depends on the balcony to watch the excitement, but I am integrated into the crowd, pushed by the crowd and enjoying the carnival of life. This is different from Berlioz's Carnival of Rome.

The manuscript of Othello is annotated with words from Shakespeare's plays. Music development also has obvious plots. But I don't care about his specific plot. I just think that passionate music has a lofty tragedy, and a heavy literary theme is summed up by him very well, which makes people think about people's fate with awe.

Although dvorak's music is not profound (such as some piano music), it is always faithful. I think only music full of sincere feelings can last forever and endure thousands of artificial rewards for such a long time. Remember, the humble melody and the new world came out a hundred years ago! You might as well make a comparison: Mao Mu said that Coleridge thought Don Quixote was worth reading from beginning to end, but after reading it once, it was no longer worth reading it all. Mao Mu himself only read through it five times. )

In the last century, when national music flourished, quite a few people made cheap "national flavor". Bernard Shaw satirized this in his music criticism. Dvorak's music, ethnic flavor is authentic, but he is "I write my mouth by hand" and speaks completely in his own language.

If I want to hold a concert of his works for my fans, I will make a long program. Not only the masterpieces mentioned above, but also the string quintet in E flat major will be recommended. The beauty of this song can be compared with Men in Black. There are also groups of exquisite "legends", Czech suites with strong national flavor, unpretentious violin sonatas, tragic epic "Hus Overture", and so on. As for the two sets of "Slavs", it goes without saying.

What Tovi said is really interesting! He praised dvorak's best German music as "pure jade and pure gold".

I sincerely hope that people who love the Philharmonic will listen to his music, and get attached to this kind of music, which has both jade and gold, and has been carefully polished without losing the beauty of nature!

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