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Experts Say the Pieces Show the Composer’s Development 专家说作品反映了作曲家的发展

The Mozart Residence Museum in Salzburg, Austria was packed last week for a very special recital¹.

It was a performance that might help bridge a gap in our understanding of the development of one of the world's great composers.

Two short works that seem to be by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were posthumously² premiered on Mozart's own piano. One piece was the harpsichord³ part for the Concerto⁴ in G (molto allegro) and the other was the Prelude⁵ in G major.

The pieces formed part of Nannerl's Music Book, a collection of music compiled by Mozart's father, Leopold Mozart.

Dr Ulrich Leisinger of the International Mozarteum Foundation believes that the two pieces were composed by Mozart and then transcribed⁶ by his father.

According to the expert, the Concerto in particular is significant because it could be the 'missing link' between the simple works Mozart created as a child prodigy⁷ and the masterpieces that he produced when he was an adult.

Researchers at the Mozarteum believe the Concerto was composed by the young virtuoso⁸ in 1763 or 1764, when he was around eight years old. That is ten years earlier than the piano concerto that is currently recognised as being Mozart's first. But the piece is much more technically⁹ demanding than the miniatures he wrote as a young child.

"This was a young composer running riot to show what he was capable of," Dr Leisinger said.

Yet Mozart's adolescent desire to show off his technical mastery did not, on this occasion, create a masterpiece.

"The piece does contain real technical mistakes and clumsy moments that an old hand like Leopold Mozart would never have made," Dr Leisinger added.

The researchers describe the newly-found Prelude in G major as slightly more "refined" than the Concerto.

When he died aged¹⁰ 35, Mozart left behind more than 600 works, including operas, chamber¹¹ works and piano concertos¹². Who knows how many more pieces by the master lie waiting to be discovered?

GLOSSARY 词汇表

packed 座无虚席/拥挤的

recital 独奏/演奏

works 作品

posthumously 去世后地 

piece 一件（作品） 

harpsichord 拨弦古钢琴

compiled 编撰

transcribed 记录/抄录

missing link 迷失的环节/部分

child prodigy 神童/天才少年

virtuoso 音乐演奏大师

recognised as 被认为是 

technically demanding 技术上具有挑战性的/难度大的 

miniatures 小品/小曲子  

running riot 叛逆不服气的

adolescent 青春期/青年时代

show off 显示/表现

old hand 经验老手 

refined 完美无瑕的

chamber works 室内乐作品

1 recital   

n.朗诵，独奏会，独唱会

参考例句：

• She is going to give a piano recital.她即将举行钢琴独奏会。
• I had their total attention during the thirty-five minutes that my recital took.在我叙述的35分钟内，他们完全被我吸引了。

2 posthumously   

adv.于死后，于身后；于著作者死后出版地

参考例句：

• He was confirmed posthumously as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. 他被追认为中国共产党党员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Her last book was published posthumously in 1948. 她最后的一本书在她死后于1948 年出版了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 harpsichord   

n.键琴（钢琴前身）

参考例句：

• I can tune the harpsichord as well as play it.我会弹奏大键琴，同样地，我也会给大键琴调音。
• Harpsichord music is readily playable.古钢琴音乐可以随时演奏。

4 concerto   

n.协奏曲

参考例句：

• The piano concerto was well rendered.钢琴协奏曲演奏得很好。
• The concert ended with a Mozart violin concerto.音乐会在莫扎特的小提琴协奏曲中结束。

5 prelude   

n.序言，前兆，序曲

参考例句：

• The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
• The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。

6 transcribed   

（用不同的录音手段）转录( transcribe的过去式和过去分词 )； 改编（乐曲）（以适应他种乐器或声部）； 抄写； 用音标标出（声音）

参考例句：

• He transcribed two paragraphs from the book into his notebook. 他把书中的两段抄在笔记本上。
• Every telephone conversation will be recorded and transcribed. 所有电话交谈都将被录音并作全文转写。

7 prodigy   

n.惊人的事物，奇迹，神童，天才，预兆

参考例句：

• She was a child prodigy on the violin.她是神童小提琴手。
• He was always a Negro prodigy who played barbarously and wonderfully.他始终是一个黑人的奇才，这种奇才弹奏起来粗野而惊人。

8 virtuoso   

n.精于某种艺术或乐器的专家，行家里手

参考例句：

• He was gaining a reputation as a remarkable virtuoso.作为一位技艺非凡的大师，他声誉日隆。
• His father was a virtuoso horn player who belonged to the court orchestra.他的父亲是宫廷乐队中一个技巧精湛的圆号演奏家。

9 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

10 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

11 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

12 concertos   

n. [音]协奏曲

参考例句：

• I once heard Brendel play all the Beethoven concertos. 有一次，我听了布伦德尔演奏贝多芬全部的协奏曲。
• The six finalists then played two piano concertos each. 然后，六名决赛选手每人演奏了两首钢琴协奏曲。