KARG-ELERT, SIGFRID: Sonata Appassionata in F# minor Op. 140
Written in 1917, Sonata Appassionata in F# minor Op. 140 by Sigfrid Karg-Elert, offers a sharp contrast to French music written in the same decade. One has the impression of leaving the world of Vuillard, all charm, polish and peace, for the neuroses of Kokoshka, tormented, torn, jumping from one extreme to the other. The indications underline this musical expressionism: ‘always very passionate’, ‘desperate’ as opposed to ‘tender’ and ‘careful’. As far as form is concerned, instead of a Sonata, it is a brief Sonatina in four episodes linked without break to a furious coda. It is still tonal, but its developments explore the atonal and serial researches. The aesthetic is closer to Mahler. Disciple of Reinecke in Leipzig, precocious pianist and composer, Karg-Elert wrote a large number of works for keyboard instruments and theorectical literature.
卡爾格－艾勒特，斯格佛禮德（KARG-ELERT, SIGFRID）
F# 小調熱情奏鳴曲，作品第140號（Sonata Appassionata in F# minor Op. 140）
這部“F# 小調熱情奏鳴曲，作品第140號”是卡爾格－艾勒特在1917年完成的，偏高的音域有別於同一時代的法國作品。卡爾格－艾勒特的作品給人有法國印象主義畫家－維亞爾德（Vuillard）繪畫作品的迷人，精煉與祥和的感覺；同時攙雜奧地利表現主義藝術家－科克西卡（Kokoshka）的神經質，糾纏與苦痛，從一個極端感受跳入另一個極端。相對於“溫柔”和“精致”等形容詞，表現主義派的音樂給人的感受總是“非常的熱情與極端”。就音樂作品體裁而言，卡爾格－艾勒特以四個不間斷的小奏鳴曲代替完整的奏鳴曲形式，最后賦予一個鮮明強烈的結尾樂章。盡管如此，整部作品依舊保持優美的調性，他的曲調變化更開啟了無調性和音序形式的研究。卡爾格－艾勒特作品的美學風格比較接近馬勒（Mahler）的曲風。作為早期就表現出超常天分的鋼琴大師和作曲家－芮內克（Reinecke）在萊比錫的門徒，卡爾格－艾勒特發表了大量和鍵盤樂器相關的音樂作品和理論文學作品。
翻譯者: 李玉美