Hermann Abert's W.A. Mozart

我建议的研究涉及注释和解释经典莫扎特传记赫尔曼阿伯特（莱比锡，1919-21）。这些注释使阿伯特跟上了时代的步伐：自他那个时代以来，关于莫扎特作品的真实性和年代的新研究已经相当多，其中一些对他的结论有重要意义。但阿伯特的不仅仅是一个生活和作品（尽管可能是最好的同类每写）。这也是一份历史文献，是了解莫扎特作为一位作曲家的最后一次伟大尝试，他的作品不仅密切反映了他的生活事实，而且反映了他是谁，以及他作为一个创造性人格所代表的东西。因此，它含蓄地代表了传记和音乐史之间的关系，我们如何写音乐和音乐家，我们如何理解他们和他们的作品之间的理论。 后来的传记把莫扎特与他的音乐分开了--他的横笛是一连串的事实，他的音乐是一连串的分析观察。在很大程度上，这一趋势源于不愿将传记视为建立社会价值观和分析方法论的基础，而这些价值观和分析方法论是叙事和分析的实际基础。我的建议，然后，是调查的作用，传记作为一个音乐历史的结构，并制定一个理论的传记和音乐史之间的关系，特别是关于莫扎特，“古典时期”和“古典风格”。阿伯特在很多方面都是个好主意！这个项目的车辆，适合学者和一般读者一样：最终结果将是一个扩展的介绍，探讨传记理论及其与学术和艺术欣赏的关系;一个明确的文本密切相关的音乐和传记的问题;和作曲家的一个突出的可读传记，一个复兴的经典，即使现在代表了同类中最好的作品之一。

The research that I propose involves annotating and explicating the classic Mozart biography by Hermann Abert (Leipzig, 1919-21). The annotations bring Abert up-to-date: since his time there has been considerable new research on the authenticity and dating of Mozart's works, some of which has significant implications for his conclusions. But Abert's is not simply a life and works (albeit probably the finest of its sort every written). It is also a historical document, the last great attempt to come to grips with Mozart as a composer whose works intimately reflect not just the facts of his life, but who he was, and what he represented, as a creative personality. As such it implicitly represents a theory of the relationship between biography and music history, between how we write about music and musicians and how we are to understand them and their works. Subsequent biographies have divorced Mozart from his music- his fife is aSuccession of facts, his music a succession of analytical observations. In no small part, this trend derives from a reluctance to consider biography as fundamental in establishing the social values and analytical methodological that are the actual bases for both narrative and analysis. What I propose, then, is to investigate the role of biography as a musical-historical construct and to formulate a theory of the relationship between biography and music historyspecifically with respect to Mozart, the 'classical period' and the 'classical style'. Abert is in many \Nays the idea! Vehicle for this project, suitable to academics and the general reader alike: the end result will Be an extended introduction that explores biographical theory and its relationship to scholarship and the appreciation of art; an explicated text germane to problems of music and biography; and an eminently readable biography of the composer, a rejuvenated classic that even now represents one the very best works of its kind.