西方音乐家的生命悲歌

On the Existential Tragedy of Great Western Musicians

西方音乐史上舒茨、巴赫、莫扎特、贝多芬、舒伯特、勃拉姆斯、威尔第、勋伯格等人,虽然所处时代不同、境遇不同、性格各异,但都是天才人物,都具有超越自我、超越时代的创作冲动;正是这种冲动导致的创作实践与他们所处时代的矛盾冲突,使这些音乐家成为悲剧性人物。

The paper analyses the musical creation and influences of such famous musicians as Schutz, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Verdi, and Schonberg in the West, points out that though their temperaments and environments were different, they all possessed the impulse of surpassing the self and the age, and their musical creations borne out of this impulse inevitably came into conflict with their environment, which made their life tragic, and the paper further draws the conclusion that great artists are invariably tragic in their life and destiny.