ExclusiveClementi: Sonata in G Minor No.3, Op 50, Didone Abbandonata - II. Adagio dolente

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Muzio Clementi: Sonata in G Minor No.3, Op 50, 'Didone Abbandonata' - II. Adagio dolente. This beautiful piece was played by Nathan Eckel. It has Creative Commons license and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Among the admirers of Clementi's talent at the time (when Muzio Clementi was 14 years old) was also an Englishman named Belford or Beckford, who proposed to the Clementi family to send the son with him to England, where he would take care of his highest education and then introduce him to the great world himself. It took a lot of persuasion before the father let his son go for this purpose. Clementi then lived, devoted to his studies, in seclusion in Dorsetshire, an estate of his protector, until 1770. Only then did he appear publicly in London as a pianist and composer, well-versed in all musical knowledge and skills, and achieved almost unprecedented success. In 1777, he was appointed as the orchestra conductor of the Italian Opera in London and also served in this office with skill and prudence for several years. Three years later, he undertook an artistic journey to Paris, where he received brilliant applause in every concert. Encouraged by this, he traveled through Southern Germany to Vienna, the high school of music at the time, where he hastened to get to know Haydn and Mozart. Emperor Joseph received him with extraordinary honor and arranged a kind of musical contest between Clementi and Mozart in 1781, which remained undecided, but was equally honorable for both parties. Mozart's playing, however, made a deep impression on Clementi, and the young virtuoso, who until then had almost exclusively cultivated dazzling proficiency so that Mozart perhaps not unjustly called him "a mere mechanic" in his letters at the time, since then strove very successfully to give his technically perfect performances beauty and an ideal interpretation.

Source: "Musical Conversation-Lexicon. An Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences. For Educated People of All Classes ...". Volume Two, Berlin, 1872.

The mountain landscape is located near Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland and was photographed by Simone Schlegel. The video was edited by Wenjing Ma.


【古典音樂小站】穆齊奧·克萊曼悌：G小調第3號奏鳴曲，作品50，《被遺棄的狄多》- II. 慢板哀傷。這首美麗的樂曲由內森·埃克爾演奏。它擁有創作共用許可證，可通過www.musopen.org獲得。

當時（穆齊奧·克萊曼悌14歲時）欣賞克萊曼悌才華的人中，也有一位名叫貝爾福德或貝克福德的英國人，他向克萊曼悌家族提議，將穆齊奧·克萊曼悌帶到英國，由他負責其最高教育，然後親自將他介紹給世界。穆齊奧·克萊曼悌的父親經過多次勸說才讓兒子為此目的離開。克萊曼悌隨後在多塞特郡一處莊園，即他的庇護者的地產中，專心致志地學習，直到1770年。只有那時，他才作為一名鋼琴家和作曲家，在倫敦公開露面，精通所有音樂知識和技巧，並取得了幾乎前所未有的成功。

1777年，他被任命為倫敦意大利歌劇院的樂隊指揮，並在這個職位上以技巧和謹慎服務了數年。三年後，他踏上了前往巴黎的藝術之旅，在每場音樂會中都獲得了熱烈的掌聲。受此鼓舞，他穿越南德國前往當時的音樂高等學府維也納，急切地去認識海頓和莫扎特。1781年，約瑟夫皇帝非常榮幸地接待了他，並安排了一場克萊曼悌與莫扎特之間的音樂比賽，結果雖未分勝負，但對雙方都同樣榮耀。然而，莫扎特的演奏給克萊曼悌留下了深刻的印象，這位年輕的演奏家，直到那時幾乎專門培養了耀眼的技巧，以至於莫扎特在當時的信中或許不無道理地稱他為“僅僅是一個技師”，從那時起，他非常成功地努力賦予他技術完美的表演以美感和理想的詮釋。

資料來源：《音樂會話詞典。全音樂科學百科全書。適合所有階層的教育人士...》第二卷，柏林，1872年。

山景位於伯恩高地的坎德斯特格附近，由西蒙娜·舒萊格爾拍攝。視頻由馬文璟編輯。



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