勃拉姆斯的创新意识

Brahms' Sense of Innovation

勃拉姆斯是继贝多芬之后众作曲家面临的"音乐主题简洁性"问题的最终解决者,其采用的办法就是展开性变奏。而音乐散文则是音乐主题简洁性的必然产物。勃拉姆斯正是顺着这一思路来创作,将前辈们习以为常的"变奏"手法和"发展"相结合,形成了自己的个性,同时又忠于前辈,对后来的诸多作曲家都产生了很大影响,并引起了德奥传统的继承人勋伯格的高度注意。

Among numerous composers after Beethoven, it was Brahms who ultimately solved the problem of brevity of music theme. He adopted the technique of developing variation. And music prose is inevitably resulted from the brevity of music theme. Brahms made music according to this thinking, combining the variation technique which was so common in his predecessors with development and finally forming his own style. But at the same time, he remained loyal to earlier generations and exerted an influence on later ones. Furthermore, he perfected expansion tonality on the basis of the elders, drawing high attention among the successors of the Austro-German tradition including A. Schoenberg.