作曲家传记编纂的历史演进

The Historical Evolution of Composer BiographyWriting

作曲家传记作为一种特殊的音乐研究的书写文体,在西方历史音乐学的研究中占有相当重要的位置。作曲家传记经历了近三百年的历史,其经典的书写样式已发生了转变:作曲家传记已不再纯粹是作曲家艺术人生的叙事,而是一种承载音乐批评的书写文体。文章在追问“何为作曲家传记”的过程中,爬梳作曲家传记编纂的历史演进,从中可见西方音乐史学思维与传记书写的传统建构及当代学术走向。

Composer biography,as a special writing style of music studies,plays an important role in the study of western music history.After three hundred years of evolution,composer biography is no longer a narrative just recordingthe composer’s artistic life,but changed to the one involved in musiccriticism.This paper tries to review and sort out the history of composer biography,and suggests a traditional pattern and academic trend of the thought of western music historiography and biography writing.