Why music

Author: Zheng Yahong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Schubert spent his life in hesitation over Beethoven. There was a light hesitation in him, a hesitation of a white temple, a hesitation of ferns in a death zone, a hesitation that was useless yet extraordinarily precise. — Seven Voices·Hesitation, Wolfram
Mozart went on tour across Europe, to Italy, France, sometimes accompanied by illness, sometimes by luck, mostly by illness. Illness reminded him of the metaphysical problems forming within him, and finding solutions to these problems had become urgent. — Exercises·The Spring of the Clarinet
The structure of this book is divided into four chapters, corresponding to the four movements of early classical symphonies — Allegro, Adagio, Minuet, and Rondo. The chapter Seven Voices explores opera, viola, symphony, and quartet, which together constitute the seven voices of music. The author, with a literary style, recombines the musical memories of his life with various musical elements, attempting to find the beauty of musical harmony. In essays, notes, and even novels, such free forms of writing describe the possibility of an encounter: Bach and Gould, Beethoven and Proust, Tchaikovsky and Anna Karenina. Musical essays here become various aesthetic practice bases across different art forms, and the writer finally withdraws in the last plucked string.