德拉克洛瓦日記中的肖邦

Delacroix on Chopin

“白天，他（肖邦）對我講音樂，他變得很興奮。我問他怎樣掌握音樂的邏輯，他讓我理解什麽是和聲與對位，而賦格是純粹的邏輯，以及對賦格的體驗是理解音樂中的理性與各種元素之間的連接關係。我覺得很感激他的開導，這不是一個平庸音樂家所能企及的。

這個領悟使我理解了名副其實的智者是在科學中得到的樂趣。真正的科學不是這個詞的通俗含義，即，知識中於藝術不同的部分。而不，就科學而言，它就是藝術本身，肖邦們的證據就是。並且，藝術不再被認為是某些人根據憑空靈感的任意作為以及虛有美麗外表的空洞無物。它（真正的藝術）受著更高法則的支配、沿襲必然的過程、是被天才裝飾後的理性。”

 

上麵是我最近讀到最精彩的一段，這是Delacroix同Chopin談話後的日記。一位天才談另一位天才，金石之言，針針見血，紮得那些欲與天才平起平坐的二度創作者們體無完膚。

太喜歡這段文字，鬥膽翻來分享。但能力有限、力不從心、讀著笨拙。貼上英文版，求高手點撥指正，先謝過。

 

Delacroix on Chopin

https://liviusnotes.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/chopin-and-delacroix-a-romantic-friendship/

“During the day [Chopin] told me about Music and this has revived him. I asked him what to ordain the Logic in Music. He made me understand what are the harmony and counterpoint, in music as the fugue is pure logic, and be experienced in the fugue is to know the reason and every element of each concatenation in Music. I thought how I would be glad to instruct me in all this, that mediocre musicians don’t bear.

 

This awareness has given me an idea of the pleasure which the sages, if worthy of this name(,) found in Science. The fact is that real Science is not what is commonly meant by this word, that’s a part of the knowledge that differs from Art.  No, the science so considered, which is evidence of a man such as Chopin, is the art itself and then the Art is no longer believes that the common man, that’s a sort of inspiration that comes from somewhere, which proceeds at random, and it does not have nothing but the picturesque exteriority of things.  It’s the Reason itself adorned by the Genius, but that follows a necessary journey, governed by higher laws.”