A relaxed and cheerful style.
I have always been interested in the relationship between family and religion. Some people think that religion is the biggest culprit of art, some people think that without religion, there is no way to present the most transcendental soul of art, and some people claim that art can replace religion and realize its function. So I decided to "religious music". My idea is that no matter what the relationship between religion and mind is, religious music definitely presents the truest state of mind.
In the process of studying religious music, I was particularly curious about Mozart, because when he was growing up in Salzburg, a religious town, he always made a living by writing religious music: the church organ was a religious ceremony, and Salzburg Catholicism showed great disrespect for Mozart, abandoned Mozart's talent, constantly restricted his creation, and even stipulated that Mozart's religious music could only be written as a small mass.
During this period, Mozart wanted to leave his post, and the bishop threatened Mozart by resigning as Mozart's father and putting his life in trouble. In order to leave the limited creative atmosphere and his artistic life in Salzburg, Mozart, accompanied by his mother, traveled all over the big cities he had visited, such as Munich, Osbourg, Manhan, Paris, London, The Hague, Paris, Lyon and Switzerland, in an attempt to find another beginning of his creative career. Instead of success, his mother died of fatigue. Mozart didn't want to spend time teaching music lessons, so he went back to Salzburg, endured humiliation and continued to be an organist, and finally broke with the bishop completely. Regarding the religious atmosphere in Salzburg, Mozart once wrote to a friend and said, "It's best not to be too' pious'! Therefore, Mozart's life has actually been struggling between the reality of his desire to create and maintain a family, the religious pressure of the overbearing bishop and his free artistic life.
Hidden Abruptness in Harmony
Portrait of Mozart at the age of six, when he was called a prodigy. The music of Mozart's father, leopold mozart, and Mozart's mother are generally lively and cheerful, which is totally out of tune with his life history. Anyone who studies the history of music knows that Mozart's musical life is very precocious. When he was only three or four years old, he fully demonstrated his musical talent. At the age of seven, he traveled around Europe as a child prodigy and played the piano. Mozart was deeply loved by princes and nobles at this time, and the joy and joy in his music was very understandable. This cheerful nature also deeply influenced Mozart's religious music. His earliest religious music, The Classic of Pity (KV33), was only 10 years old when it was written. The connotation of the sutra of mercy is "Send Jesus, my life", which should actually be a confession of profound faith, but this is by no means understandable by Mozart, who is regarded as a rare genius. But strangely, Mozart's music was still cheerful as an adult, and he was no longer loved by prodigies, and began to be depressed with the bishop of Salzburg. It is precisely because of this musical style that music interpreters began to pay attention to the hidden minor and dissonance chromatic scales that suddenly disappeared in Mozart's music. They all found that these notes were telling something other than joy, and Mozart immediately immersed them in joy and harmony after seemingly inadvertently stating these emotions. The most obvious manifestation of this music style is that after his mother died, Mozart had to return to Salzburg and become a more humble organist than before.
For example, Mozart's violin concerto in E major (KV364) was written in 1779, and his mother died. Mozart returned to Salzburg, still at odds with the Bishop (a year later, he finally broke up completely). In the always cheerful and brisk style, this piece of music is mixed with the fast-spinning rising sound of chromatic scale, giving people a feeling of anxiety, as if they want to leave and escape besides counting. But the appearance of this note is an abrupt transition, and its sudden appearance and disappearance are harmonious.
Despite this anxiety, the stern archbishop could not allow Mozart to put it into religious music. However, if we listen carefully to the solemn mass in C major (KV337) of religious music at the same time, in its pitying sutra, there will be a rise in chromatic scale and a sudden disharmony, especially because its harmony suddenly stops, giving people a very obvious sense of uncertainty of "putting forward no answer". This expression of religious music is already very explicit.
No matter how Mozart negates depression and anxiety with joy in the end, the true heart presented by his music can still make listeners feel that Mozart longed for freedom and left, but he was not satisfied with the life situation at that time.
Mozart finally broke with the Archbishop at 178 1. It is said that the archbishop kicked his ass and kicked him out in public. Mozart told his father in his letter, "The Bishop said that no one who served him was worse than me. He also said other ugly things that I didn't want to repeat, and said that I was uneducated. Please don't lose heart and leave the archbishop. I think I'll start teaching good luck. From then on, Mozart began his more difficult and unstable life.
Confession of soul belief
After leaving Salzburg, Mozart composed his most famous mass in C minor (KV427) in 1783. This mass was not completed because there was no church ceremony, but as far as its completion is concerned, it ranks alongside Bach's mass in B minor and Beethoven's solemn mass as the three largest mass in the world.
The first "Pity Sutra" begins with the heavy theme motivation of musical instruments, and then musical instruments and vocal music present two different theme fugues, and vocal music is also divided into four fugues. From the beginning, the voice rose sharply, and then fell sharply, giving people a very dramatic excitement. The theme of instrumental music is repeated from beginning to end, as if to state a choice that you know the ending but can't stop, and also set off the four fugues of the voice, "Lord, I beg you to have mercy." The middle part of the lyrics, "Christ, please have mercy on me", is a solo of gentle prayer, sometimes a dialogue with gentle prayer, and sometimes an attachment to each other. As soon as the prayer wind passes, I will return to the fugue of instrumental music and human voice. Source: www.lw372 1.com