Why is the adaptation of French composer Ravel 1922 the most popular among the pictures in the exhibition? (5)

1March 2, 8391day, Musorgskiy was born in a small landlord family in Clever, Russia. He became familiar with the life of farmers at an early age. He studied piano with his mother since childhood, and went to Petersburg to learn piano with Helck at the age of 10. A few years later, he became an excellent pianist, improvising and composing music. Because his father didn't agree with him to become a professional musician, he was sent to the Guards College when he was 13 years old. After graduation, he served in the army, held an official position in the Pleo Blaskey Corps and served as the Imperial Guard. However, Musorgskiy still loved music very much, never stopped studying music, and accumulated rich experience in creative practice, so he showed amazing creative talent and rich imagination very early. From 65438 to 0859, he finally left his military career and devoted himself to music. His early works were not successful enough, and later he studied under Balakirev and made contributions to the creation of Russian classical music art.

As a child, Musorgskiy lived in the Russian countryside. He not only received music enlightenment education, but also came into contact with extremely colorful folk art. At the same time, in contact with farmers, he deepened his sympathy for the working people. All this had an immeasurable influence on Musorgskiy's later musical life. Although he is interested in music, due to his poor family, he never entered the Conservatory of Music to receive formal music education. From 65438 to 0863, Musorgskiy began to work in the Ministry of Communications.

1869, Musorgskiy was re-appointed as a clerk of the Ministry of Forestry and lived in poverty in his later years. 1881On March 28th, Musorgskiy died of epilepsy in Petersburg at the age of 42. 1939 in order to commemorate this outstanding musician, the people of the former Soviet Union decided to rename the Ukrainian National Conservatory of Music Musorgskiy Conservatory of Music.

When we face the portraits of Musorgskiy, especially those painted by Lie Bin at 188 1, what you see is a dying genius: a person who is extremely weak and needs help from others, wearing a hospital gown. In a sense, this portrait reflects the situation that the talented artist was troubled by despair all his life.

Perhaps it is this despair that inspires the artists' ancient Russian spirit-unusual personality resistance, fierce and stubborn (such as the theme of the rebellion of the Horvance Party), mixed with fragility, sensitivity and contradiction. If Musorgskiy's genius personality can be fully displayed, it should still be Boris Godunov, a work full of historical epic, which almost devotes all the ideological elements of genius. Works such as "Photos in Exhibition" show another side of the artist's life, which may be described as "happiness", although they are made in memory of his close friend Victor Hartman. This kind of "happiness" comes from the composer's heartfelt talk and the expression of his inner thoughts. However, thinking about the sadness of death is always a theme that Musorgskiy can't get rid of, and "happiness" is just a fleeting spring.

Musorgskiy's works include songs, romance, chorus, orchestral music, piano music, etc., among which vocal music is the main work. In his short life at the age of 42, his works are not many, but they are very weighty: the piano suite "Pictures" in the exhibition is considered to be one of the most popular works in the history of music; The national opera Boris Godunov is regarded as the best folk opera in the world. China people are more familiar with the bass solo song "Flea Song". His opera Boris Godunov, symphonic poem Night on a Barren Mountain and Flea Song Song have all become treasures in the world music treasure house.

Musorgskiy's most famous work is Night on a Barren Mountain, which is widely circulated all over the world except the pictures in the exhibition. This work "Musorgskiy" lasted 17 years from brewing, conception to creation. This is a single movement music with a title, which is both narrative and descriptive, and the structure of the music is relatively free. What is often heard now is the modified version of the rimsky-Kosakov orchestration.

At the beginning of the music, the faint violin performance hovered up and down, the woodwind performance was anxious and roared, and the rough pace and rhythm of brass music advanced tenaciously, presenting a horrible and charming picture. Rimsky-Kosakov called this passage "the mysterious voice from underground" and "the appearance of ghosts in the night". Then, the trombone and tuba played the main theme of King Satan's cruelty and arrogance.

After the theme of the introduction and King Satan is repeated, it is an evil dance style theme of dancing, feasting and indulging. Humorous dancing tones and brass trumpets appear in turn until they are intertwined. In the process of unfolding and reappearing, several themes pushed the noisy and joyful scene of the devil to a climax.

Suddenly, the band plummeted, and it was almost silent. At dawn, the church bells rang in the distance. Dawn dispelled the darkness, and demons fled everywhere. This is a very interesting piece of music. In a flash, everything becomes so quiet and serene that people look forward to it quietly. ...

In the angelic sound of the harp, the strings gently repeat a simple motive. Finally, the clarinet sang a lyric pastoral of Ukrainian folk songs with a mysterious and sweet voice. Light will overcome darkness, and a new day has begun. This is people's simple and sincere pursuit, which contains beautiful and lofty feelings. When the sonorous flute pierced everything and played this indescribable melody, the theme that the author wanted to express in this song deeply touched the hearts of the audience, and the music ended in endless aftertaste.

The flea song was written on 1879. The lyrics are selected from the German poet Goethe's poetic drama Faust, which was sung by the devil Mephisto fellers and a group of friends in the fifth scene of the first film. Before him, Beethoven, Lira, Berlioz and other composers had composed music for this lyric poem, but they were all folk songs in sections. Musorgskiy wrote a "general music song", which is famous for its distinctive musical image, dramatic artistic effect and rich Russian folk song style. The whole song is divided into three parts: the first part is a narrative tune close to recitation, which contains obvious irony. The cadence in piano accompaniment vividly depicts the image of fleas; The second part of the music is like a magnificent ode, describing the arrogant attitude of flea when he became a minister, but the laughter that followed exposed his ugly state; The last paragraph combines the music materials of the first two paragraphs to push the song to a climax. The whole song ended with the hearty laughter of the winner who strangled the flea. In addition to the ending, the whole song is permeated with mocking and contemptuous laughter, which greatly enhances the ironic effect.