音乐图书推荐丨《门德尔松的一生》

「今日荐书」《门德尔松的一生》被定义为门德尔松的正名之作。在人们的认知里，门德尔松这个幸福家庭出生的孩子。其音乐创作也是浪漫华丽，但是缺少贝多芬那种深入骨髓的挣扎和苦难，因而显得不够深刻。门德尔松是位音乐神童，也是个天才作曲家，同时他还是位画家。作者托德通过对其音乐创作、日记手稿、生平书信、甚至绘画的深入研究。为我们填补了对这位作曲家的想象空间，并试图反驳门德尔松音乐“月光像掺了糖水”的世俗印象。

Mendelssohn: A Life in Music

《门德尔松的一生》

By R. Larry Todd

An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." 

作为有着莫扎特般非凡才能的奇才，门德尔松成为了一位杰出的作曲家、指挥家、传奇钢琴家和管风琴演奏家，同时他也是一位造诣非凡的画家和古典学者。在他有生之年，其作品《婚礼进行曲》和《乘着歌声的翅膀》等曲目在音乐会风靡一时，并给观众留下深刻印象。

Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works.

现在几十年以来门德尔松出版的第一本重要传记中，托德根据其对手稿、信件、日记和绘画的精心研究，将这个音乐巨人进行了全新描述。有评论家称门德尔松的音乐为“掺了糖水的月光”，托德却不这么认为。在他看来门德尔松并非一位泡在蜜罐子里只能写出多愁善感音乐的作曲家。托德重新审视了门德尔松的全部作品，包括其中许多未发表和鲜为人知的音乐。

Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness.

以下是门德尔松独一无二的作品分析——充满激情的《弦乐八重奏》、《仲夏夜之梦》、《赫布里底群岛序曲》和哀婉的《E小调小提琴协奏曲》。毋庸置疑门德尔松的音乐新鲜而生动，托德描述了门德尔松如何举重若轻细腻入微，其编曲如何精妙而色彩斑斓。

He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time.

他还探讨了门德尔松对自己宗教传统认识的转变，瓦格纳对门德尔松音乐恶毒的反犹攻击，介绍了门德尔松与姐姐范妮之间的复杂关系；托德还研究了门德尔松的多重身份，不仅是神童和高产作曲家，还是位热衷绘画的画家；不容忽视的是，托德还记述了门德尔松与那个时代文化精英的多语通信。

Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.  

《门德尔松的一生》是传记和音乐分析的完美结合。读者将以一个全新的角度来了解门德尔松一生的故事，走近这位广为人知却饱受误解的音乐天才。

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