第二十六期：The Genius of Paul Hindemith

概要
时隔很久的更新😳🙈这一期是纪念Paul Hindemith的突然离世。之前我对这位作曲家没有一点了解，在这一期里学到了很多。Bernstein对于Hindemith的形容是德式传统的继承人，虽然他的音乐乍一听是不和谐的，但是这些不和谐下面还是对传统的继承，而且他也是抵抗了勋伯格开创的十二音作曲风潮。针对这一点，Bernstein举了两个例子，一个是他的Three Exercise Pieces，虽然听起来挺“现代”的，但是底色和巴赫的二部创意曲没有什么区别；另一个是他的Piano Sonata No.2，虽然也是有一些“奇怪”，但用的Alberti Bass也是非常传统。之后Bernstein介绍了他的交响曲Mathis der Maler，是由他的同名歌剧改编，写的是德国画家Mathis Gruenwald的三幅画。Bernstein介绍道，Hindemith对这位画家的痴迷很大程度上是因为二人共享类似的境遇：Hindemith内心挣扎于满足纳粹的需求和自己的创作自由，而当年Mathis Gruenwald也是陷入宗教争端，内心挣扎。这首交响曲成为一种他对于纳粹的抵抗，艺术家也是公民，而抵抗的方式就是创作艺术本身。

喜欢的Quote
He was a fun-loving man, for whom music was everything. He was my idea of the total musician; he played music, wrote it, taught it, breathed it. He played jazz in cafes; he was concertmaster of an orchestra; he played viola in a string quartet, he wrote books about music; but mainly he wrote music, every kind of music —big, little, serious, light, noble and jazzy, hard and easy, music for professionals, for amateurs, and for children. He was a modern composer; but he was certainly never what we call an Angry Young Man. He had too much love in him for that. He loved all the German music that he was born into — Bach, Mozart, Bruckner; and he just continued it, making his own additions and changes.

So this opera about Mathis der Maler was his way of protesting; and in it he solved Gruenwald's problem as well as his own, by deciding that an artist is also a citizen and a fighter, only his way of fighting is by practicing his art, by creating beauty, in his own way — even if it means leaving his country, forever, which Hindemith finally did in 1938.

曲目
1. Paul Hindemith - Übung in drei Stücken (Exercise in Three Pieces), Op. 31/I
2. Paul Hindemith - Piano Sonata No.2
3. Paul Hindemith - Quartet No.3QUARTET NO, 3, OPUS 22
4. Paul Hindemith - Kleine Kammermusik
5. Paul Hindemith - Mathis der Maler

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