德拉克洛瓦日记中的肖邦

Delacroix on Chopin

“白天，他（肖邦）对我讲音乐，他变得很兴奋。我问他怎样掌握音乐的逻辑，他让我理解什么是和声与对位，而赋格是纯粹的逻辑，以及对赋格的体验是理解音乐中的理性与各种元素之间的连接关系。我觉得很感激他的开导，这不是一个平庸音乐家所能企及的。

这个领悟使我理解了名副其实的智者是在科学中得到的乐趣。真正的科学不是这个词的通俗含义，即，知识中于艺术不同的部分。而不，就科学而言，它就是艺术本身，肖邦们的证据就是。并且，艺术不再被认为是某些人根据凭空灵感的任意作为以及虚有美丽外表的空洞无物。它（真正的艺术）受着更高法则的支配、沿袭必然的过程、是被天才装饰后的理性。”

 

上面是我最近读到最精彩的一段，这是Delacroix同Chopin谈话后的日记。一位天才谈另一位天才，金石之言，针针见血，扎得那些欲与天才平起平坐的二度创作者们体无完肤。

太喜欢这段文字，斗胆翻来分享。但能力有限、力不从心、读着笨拙。贴上英文版，求高手点拨指正，先谢过。

 

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.”