论文部分内容阅读
在巴赫为我们留下的音乐宝库中,为键盘乐器谱写的作品是数量最多的。最初聆听这些作品时,那些相对单调的音色、浓重的宗教气息、缺乏热闹的场景,可能会令听众觉得索然乏味而无所适从。但其中有一首却是例外,那便是《哥德堡变奏曲》。《哥德堡变奏曲》(Goldberg Variations,编号BWV 988),其来历颇为有趣。据福克尔(NikolausForkel,1749-1818)的《巴赫的一生、艺术及其作品》记载:1741年,俄国驻德累斯顿宫廷的公使冯.凯瑟琳伯爵访问莱比锡时,巴赫献上了一首古钢琴变奏曲。原来,伯爵患有失眠症,便委托巴赫写一套变奏曲,以便他的琴师哥德堡每晚在他难以入眠时
Among the musical bachs left behind by Bach for us is the largest number of works written for keyboard instruments. When first listening to these works, those relatively monotonous tone, strong religious atmosphere, lack of lively scenes, may make the audience feel boring and confused. But one of them is the exception, that is, “Gothenburg Variations.” The origins of Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) are quite interesting. According to “Bach’s Life, Art and Works” by Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818), Bach presented an ancient book when visiting the country in 1741, when Count Von Catherine, the minister of the Russian palace in Dresden, visited Leipzig. Piano Variations. It turned out that the count suffered from insomnia, he commissioned Bach to write a set of variations so that his musician Goteborg per night when he was hard to sleep