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灑滿音符的圣彼得堡英語閱讀
灑滿音符的圣彼得堡
St. Petersburg: It Always Has Music
它沒有“音樂之都”的美譽(yù)，作為首都的歷史也不長。然而，從這里走出來的作曲家，卻仿如天邊一顆顆熠熠閃爍的明星，頗讓世人心生戀慕，舉首敬仰。
St. Petersburg is the cultural treasure trove of Russia. In its relatively short history, it’s produced a wealth of ballet, theatre and opera companies. Singers, writers, dancers, orchestras; there are over 500 palaces here.
Russia’s first conservatory was opened in St. Petersburg in 1862 under the direction of pianist, composer and conductor Anton Rubinstein.
In1871, this great man behinde me, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, joined the staff as professor and remained there for 20 years. But before that, he attended the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg. He wrote his first aymphony while on a three-year naval cruise. When he joined the staff here, Nikolai realized that he knew almost no music theory, despite the fact that he’d already completed two symphonies and numerous other works. So he taught himself in secret and became one of the world’s great music theorists, particularly in music harmony. Several of Rimsky-Korsakov’s students achieved musical greatness, including Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky, and his influence has been quite profound.
You hear this best in Rimsky’s symphonic suite, Sheherezade. Based on stories from The Arabian Nights, as told by Madame Sheherezade herself, her new husband, the sultan Haroon Allah al Rashid, has executed all his former wives on their wedding night. To avoid their fate, she tells him cliff-hanging tales throughout the night. In the score, Rimsky shows both Haroon al Rashid’s implacable character and Sheherezade’s seductive skills. He is charmed; she lives.
Sheherezade must be a fantasy, sound worlds of the ancient Middle East. It’s a most glamorous sound too; something entirely new in the music of the late 19th century, one obviously bent a few years in Hollywood 50 years later. All those studio pictures about Aladdin and flying carpets; they sound suspiciously like Rimsky-Korsakov. His carpets, though, are of a much finer weave. Oh, yes. He also wrote that piece about a bumble bee. In 1944, on the centenary of his birth, the conseratory was renamed the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in his honour.
Well, we hope you’ve enjoyed this little smapshort of St. Petersburg. As you can see, it’s a city rich in culture and the arts.
譯文：
圣彼得堡是俄羅斯的文化寶藏，就它相對(duì)不長的歷史而言，這里誕生了大量的芭蕾、戲劇及歌劇院團(tuán)，還有歌手、作家、舞者、管弦樂團(tuán)。這里的宮殿多達(dá)五百座以上。
俄羅斯第一間音樂學(xué)院于1862年在圣彼得堡成立，由鋼琴家、作曲家及指揮家安東魯賓斯坦任院長。
1871年，我身后的偉人尼古拉里姆斯基-柯薩柯夫擔(dān)任音樂學(xué)院教授一職，并執(zhí)教20年。但在此之前，他進(jìn)入了圣彼得堡海軍軍官學(xué)校。他在航海的三年里完成了第一部交響樂作品。當(dāng)他到音樂學(xué)院任教時(shí)，自知對(duì)音樂理論幾乎一竅不通——盡管他自己已完成了兩部交響樂和不少其他作品。于是他秘密自學(xué)，終于成為世界上最杰出的音樂理論家之一，尤其在音樂和聲學(xué)方面。他的幾位學(xué)生也取得了偉大的成就，其中包括謝爾蓋普羅科菲耶夫和伊戈?duì)査固乩乃够挠皯蚰莻�(gè)堪稱深遠(yuǎn)。
里姆斯基對(duì)音樂創(chuàng)作的影響在他的交響樂組曲《天方夜譚》里得到最佳的體現(xiàn)。這部作品根據(jù)山魯佐德夫人講述的一千零一夜的故事而作。山魯佐德的新婚丈夫是一位名叫哈倫阿爾-拉希德的國王，他的所有前妻都會(huì)在婚禮當(dāng)晚被他處死。為了與自己的命運(yùn)抗?fàn)帲紧斪舻抡斫o他講扣人心弦的故事。樂曲里，里姆斯基既刻畫了國王的無情性格，又展現(xiàn)了山魯佐德頗具誘惑性的技巧。他被迷住了，她活了下來。
《天方夜譚》展現(xiàn)的無疑是關(guān)于古代中東的奇幻音樂世界，也是無比華美的樂曲，而對(duì)于19世紀(jì)后期的音樂而言，它更是全然一新的，以致于50年之后的好萊塢音樂創(chuàng)作在許多年里仍明顯受他的影響。電影公司在拍攝阿拉丁神燈、飛毯等故事時(shí)，其音樂風(fēng)格讓人無法不聯(lián)想到里姆斯基的音樂。當(dāng)然，里姆斯基的音樂毯子（此其音樂作品）編制得更加完美……哦，對(duì)了，他還寫了首關(guān)于大黃蜂的樂曲。1944年是他的百年壽辰。那年，音樂學(xué)院改名為里姆斯基-柯薩柯夫國家音樂學(xué)院以紀(jì)念他。
希望你喜歡對(duì)圣彼得堡的簡(jiǎn)介。你可看到，這座城市充滿了文化和藝術(shù)的氣息。
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