自強之路

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Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography.

Biography

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György Cziffra
Born 5 November 1921
Budapest, Hungary

真是呸呸呸，人家活得好好的，今年剛封爵、歡渡揚名立萬五十六周年，怎的說不在了，我猜可能是把他跟水星哥給搞混了吧... ㄏㄏ

他最近的消息請點這裡

Klára Würtz is among the more important pianists to have emerged from the latter decades of the 20th century. Hungarian-born, Amsterdam-based, she has, since the early '90s, made numerous tours of the United States and Canada while also appearing throughout Holland and elsewhere in Europe. If her repertory generally excludes Baroque as well as contemporary music, it is broad still, taking in all the sonatas of Mozart and large chunks of the outputs of Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Bartók, Debussy, and many others. Würtz has made numerous recordings for a variety of labels, including Brilliant Classics, Regis Records, and Globe.

Würtz was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1965. She was a child prodigy: she first sat down at the piano at age five and soon became an extraordinarily accomplished player. She joined the Hungarian Radio and Television Children's Chorus in the early '70s, not as a singer but to serve as the group's pianist. She soon enrolled at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in her native city where she studied under Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, and Ferenc Rados. She would later attend master classes held by András Schiff in England.

1985 proved to be a breakthrough year for Würtz when she captured first prize in the Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competition, a prestigious event held every two years in Seregno, Italy. In 1988 Würtz was a prize winner in another important contest, the Dublin International Piano Competition. By this time her career was firmly established in Europe, though not yet in North America.

In 1991 she began making regular tours of the United States and Canada and soon won over critics and public alike, most particularly at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, and at the Ravinia Festival. Among her first recordings was the 1994 Globe CD of a collection of Bartók works that included the Piano Sonata and the 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs.

外公是廣東人，說得一口流利的廣東話，也愛聽廣東歌。從小深深受到外公的影響，也愛廣東文化，成天吵著外公教我廣東話。後來外公買了一張黑膠唱片給我，要我天天聽，廣東話的 '語感' 自然就能建立了。

這張唱片是廣東歌手許冠傑發行的第二張粵語專輯《天才與白痴》(1975)，主打歌《天才與白痴》是許氏兄弟第二部電影《天才與白痴》的主題曲。專輯的曲名、作曲、作詞如下 (wiki)：

1. 天才與白痴（電影「天才與白痴」主題曲）    許冠傑    許冠傑、薛志雄    
2. 天才白痴往日情（電影「天才與白痴」插曲）    許冠傑    許冠傑、薛志雄    

Born: March 20, 1915 - Zhitomir, Russia (in the territory of modern Ukraine)
Died: August 1, 1997 - Moscow, Russia

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Russian: Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер) was a Soviet pianist of German extraction (German father). He was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, and is sometimes proposed as the greatest of all. He was well known for his vast repertoire, effortless technique and poetic phrasing.

Sviatoslav Richter was born in Zhitomir but grew up in Odessa. Unusually, he was largely self-taught although his organist father provided him with a basic education in music. Even at an early age, Richter was an excellent sight-reader, and regularly practiced with local opera and ballet companies. He developed a lifelong passion for opera, vocal and chamber music that found its full expression in the festival he established in Grange de Meslay, France. He started to work at the Odessa Conservatory where he accompanied the opera rehearsals. He gave his first recital in 1934 at the engineer club of Odessa but did not formally study piano until three years later, when he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory, which waived the entrance exam for the young prodigy after it was clear he would not pass. He studied with Heinrich Neuhaus who also taught Emil Gilels, and who claimed Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life". In 1940, while still a student, he gave the world premiere of the Sonata No. 6 by Sergei Prokofiev, a composer with whose works he was ever after associated. He also became known for skipping compulsory political lessons at the conservatory and being expelled twice during his first year. Richter remained a political outsider in the U.S.S.R. and never joined the Party.

Georg Philipp Telemann (24 March 1681 – 25 June 1767) (German pronunciation: [ˈteːləman]) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in music. He held important positions in Leipzig, Sorau, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the five main churches. While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.

Telemann is one of the most prolific composers in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Telemann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian, German) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles.

Legacy and influence
Telemann was one of the most prolific major composers of all time: his all-encompassing oeuvre comprises more than 3,000 compositions, half of which have been lost, and most of which have not been performed since the 18th century. From 1708 to 1750, Telemann composed 1,043 sacred cantatas and 600 overture-suites, and types of concertos for combinations of instruments that no other composer of the time composed. The first accurate estimate of the number of his works was provided by musicologists only during the 1980s and 1990s, when extensive thematic catalogues were published. During his lifetime and the latter half of the 18th century, Telemann was very highly regarded by colleagues and critics alike. Numerous theorists (Marpurg, Mattheson, Quantz, and Scheibe, among others) cited his works as models, and major composers such as J.S. Bach and Handel bought and studied his published works. He was immensely popular not only in Germany but also in the rest of Europe: orders for editions of Telemann's music came from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and Spain. It was only in the early 19th century that his popularity came to a sudden halt. Most lexicographers started dismissing him as a "polygraph" who composed too many works, a Vielschreiber for whom quantity came before quality. Such views were influenced by an account of Telemann's music by Christoph Daniel Ebeling, a late-18th-century critic who in fact praised Telemann's music and made only passing critical remarks of his productivity. After the Bach revival, Telemann's works were judged as inferior to Bach's and lacking in deep religious feeling. For example, by 1911, the Encyclopædia Britannica lacked an article about Telemann, and in one of its few mentions of him referred to "the vastly inferior work of lesser composers such as Telemann" in comparison to Handel and Bach.

Fahre fort, übe nicht allein die Kunst, sondern dringe auch in ihr Inneres;

sie verdient es, denn nur die Kunst und die Wissenschaft erhöhen den Menschen bis zur Gottheit.

~ Wikiquote, A Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812, from Ludwig van Beethovan

看看二位大師們 (Afred Cortot, Hans von Bülow) 怎麼用文字形容蕭邦二十四首前奏曲 (24 Preludes, Op. 28) 每一首的感覺...

1. Agitato.
Cortot: Feverish anticipation of loved ones
Bülow: Reunion

François-René Duchâble (born 22 April 1952, in Paris) is a French pianist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the age of 13 won the institution's first prize in piano. Three years later, he placed 11th at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, and in 1973 he won the Prix de la Fondation Sacha Schneider. At that time, Duchâble caught the attention of Arthur Rubinstein, who encouraged him to pursue a solo career and helped him secure his first important engagements. Since then, Duchâble has had a successful concert career in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Duchâble has had in his repertoire the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bartók and Ravel, and solo piano works of Liszt, Chopin, and Poulenc. He has appeared at many prestigious music festivals, including those of Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, the London Proms, Lockenhaus, and the Flanders Festival, and has presented concerts at London's Royal Festival Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin, and the Musikverein in Vienna. As an orchestral soloist, Duchâble has performed with the London Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Montreal Symphony. Among his musical collaborators was Micheline Ostermeyer.

In 2003, Duchâble stated that he would end his classical recital career, in protest at what he saw as the elitism of the classical music system. He had planned three concerts where in two of them, he would destroy two grand pianos, and in one, he would burn his formal concert dress. He said that he would instead tour with an electronic keyboard around France to give informal concerts.

Duchâble was the classical music technical advisor for the Danièle Thompson film Fauteuils d'orchestre (2006), and performed the solo piano works for the soundtrack. The fictional character of "Jean-François Lefort" in this film incorporates elements of Duchâble's own expressed attitudes towards the classical music world. ~ wiki

Olga Scheps (born January 4, 1986) is a German-Russian pianist, who currently resides in Cologne, Germany.

1986–2001: Early life and career beginnings
Olga Scheps was born on January 4, 1986, in Moscow, Russia, and came to Germany at the age of six. Characterized by musical surroundings of her family, especially of her father Ilja Scheps who is also a pianist and moreover professor at the Aachen section of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, she began piano lessons at the age of four.

Her active concert work started at the age of twelve when already calling attention to herself by winning several first prizes at the German competitions Jugend musiziert in 1999 as well as Jugend spielt Klassik in 2001. At the age of 14, she debuted with orchestra at the concert series Junge Elite with the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Prokofiev at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. This debut was followed by recitals in the concert series Best of NRW and The Next Generation at Harenberg City Center Dortmund.

郎朗 (1982年6月14日生)，滿族，出生於中華人民共和國遼寧省瀋陽市，國際著名鋼琴家。他曾被數家美國權威媒體稱作「當今這個時代最天才、最閃亮的偶像明星」，他是受聘於世界頂級的柏林愛樂樂團和美國五大交響樂團的第一位中國鋼琴家。曾被《人物（青年版）》雜誌稱為「將改變世界的20名青年」之一。現居美國紐約。紐約市文化旅遊大使。

童年
郎朗出生於瀋陽一個音樂世家，父親郎國任當時在瀋陽空軍部隊歌舞團任專業二胡演奏員，全家所住院子裡都是文藝工作者，每家孩子都學樂器。在這種氛圍下，幼年的郎朗很早的表現出了音樂上的天賦，兩歲時看動畫片《湯姆與傑利》中貓彈奏著李斯特《匈牙利狂想曲》捉老鼠那段讓他入迷，他看完後跑到鋼琴前把那幾個音彈奏出來了，讓郎朗的父親吃驚，當即找來幾個專家試郎朗的反應、耳朵靈敏度。在得到幾位專家對郎朗音樂天才的首肯後，郎朗的父親開始了對郎朗的鋼琴培育計劃。

郎朗3歲便師從瀋陽音樂學院朱雅芬教授學習鋼琴，5歲時在瀋陽鋼琴比賽中獲得第一名，並於同年舉辦第一次公開獨奏，7歲第二次獲瀋陽鋼琴比賽第一名，9歲獲全國星海鋼琴比賽第一名。9歲郎朗的父親辭去工作（瀋陽治安特警支隊一科科員）帶郎朗來到北京，考入北京中央音樂學院，師從趙屏國教授。

Curriculum Vitae de pianita emanuele delucchi

Pianist and composer, Emanuele Delucchi (b. 1987) studied with Canzio Bucciarelli (Genoa), Riccardo Risaliti (Imola) e Davide Cabassi (Bozen); he graduated in 2009 summa cum laude and in 2016 he got the Composer diploma. He has given recitals in Italy, Germany, France, UK, Greece, Slovenia, Croazia and Mexico and he has recorded for the labels Toccata Classics (music by Alkan-Da Motta, first recording, with pianist Vincenzo Maltempo), Dynamic (Beethoven-Drouet, Sonatas op. 30 with flutist Fabio De Rosa) and Piano Classics; his repertoire includes from renaissance to contemporary music, with special attention for the less-known literature (first live performance of Pianist im klassischen Style op. 856 by C. Czerny and first italian performance of the Concerto op. 39 by C. V. Alkan). He is an appreciated performer of the piano music by L. Godowsky (albums “Piano works” and “Studies on Chopin opus 10” are published by the label Piano Classics, positively reviewed from critics). In the international piano festival En blanco y negro (Mexico City) he gave the first mexican performance of the Passacaglia by Godowsky. In spring 2016 he played the complete Studien uber die Etuden von F. Chopin on op. 10 in Rome, Milan and Chiavari (GE) and on march 22 and 23 2018 he performed the complete 54 Studien in Milan (the third pianist who did it, after Francesco Libetta and Carlo Grante). He collaborated with conductors Gustav Kuhn, Filippo Torre and Paolo Ferrara, with composers Fabio Vacchi, Carlo Boccadoro (2014) and Sylvano Bussotti (2007), with pianists Luca Buratto, Francesco Libetta and Vincenzo Maltempo, with violinist Giulio Plotino and he regulary plays in trio with Barbara Costa and Roberto Miele (“TrioMorgen”) and in duo with Fabio De Rosa (flute). His own works are published by M.A.P. in Milan and Da Vinci Edition in Osaka; his Ricercare II  for orchestra opened the VI Festival Primavera di Baggio in 2017. È lettore vorace e amante della cultura classica. He is a voracious reader and a classical culture lover.

an hier legendarily of godowisky...

Alessandro Deljavan (born February 1, 1987) is an Italian classical pianist. He began studying piano when he was not even two years old. After receiving a degree from the Conservatory of Milan, Italy, he was selected for the prestigious Lake Como International Piano Association where he studied with William Grant Naboré, Dimitri Bashkirov, Laurent Boullet, Fou Ts'ong, Dominique Merlet, John Perry, Menahem Pressler, and Andreas Staier. 

Prizes
In 1996 he won the 1er Prix, 1er Nommé de la discipline piano classique, degré virtuiosité in Paris, Rueil-Malmaison. 
Other prices include 5th place at the 2005 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Competition, the John Giordano Jury chairman Discretionary Award ($4.000) at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth, Texas, and the 2nd prize at the 2010 Isang Yun Competition, Tongyeong, South Korea. In 2013 he was the unique competitor to return to the Cliburn as a competitor; his exclusion from the final round had been criticized by the critics; he was awarded with the Raymond E. Buck Jury Discretionary Award ($4,000). After few days from his exclusion he voluntarily retired from the Cleveland International Piano Competition by which he was selected as unique Italian pianist. ~ wiki

還是喜歡自己的翻譯。每每讀之，總生淒涼無限...

Eagles 老鷹合唱團：Hotel California 加州旅館

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
行駛在深夜的荒漠公路 冷風吹散髮剪

The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band which was founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. Belushi and Aykroyd, respectively in character as lead vocalist "Joliet" Jake Blues and harmonica player/vocalist Elwood Blues, fronted the band, which was composed of well-known and respected musicians. The band made their debut as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live, opening the show performing "Soul Man", and later "Hey Bartender".
The band began to take on a life beyond the confines of the television screen, releasing an album, Briefcase Full of Blues, in November of 1978, as well as opening for the Grateful Dead on December 31st, 1978 for the closing of Winterland Arena in San Francisco, and then having a Hollywood film, The Blues Brothers, created around its characters in 1980.
After the death of Belushi in 1982, the Blues Brothers have continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. The band reformed in 1988 for a world tour and again in 1998 for a sequel film, Blues Brothers 2000. (wiki)

she caught the katy (here's a rearranged version)

William Kapell was born in New York City on September 20, 1922, and grew up in the eastside neighborhood of Yorkville, Manhattan, where his parents owned a Lexington Avenue bookstore. His father was of Spanish-Russian ancestry and his mother of Polish descent. Dorothea Anderson La Follette (the wife of Chester La Follette) met Kapell at the Third Street Music School and became his teacher giving him lessons several times a week at her studio on West 64th Street. Kapell later studied with pianist Olga Samaroff, former wife of conductor Leopold Stokowski, at the Juilliard School.

Kapell won his first competition at the age of ten and received as a prize a turkey dinner with the pianist José Iturbi. In 1941, he won the Philadelphia Orchestra's youth competition as well as the prestigious Naumburg Award. The following year, the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation sponsored the 19-year-old pianist's New York début, a recital which won him the Town Hall Award for the year's outstanding concert by a musician under 30. He was immediately signed to an exclusive recording contract with RCA Victor.

Kapell achieved fame while in his early twenties, in part as a result of his performances of Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in D-flat. His 1946 world premiere recording of the piece with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra was a sell-out hit. Eventually, he became so associated with the work that he was referred to in some circles as "Khachaturian Kapell." Besides his exciting pianism and stupendous technical gifts, Kapell's good looks and mop of unruly black hair helped make him a hit with the public.

By the late 1940s, Kapell had toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia to immense acclaim and was widely considered the most brilliant and audacious of his generation of young American pianists. On May 18, 1948, he married Rebecca Anna Lou Melson, with whom he had two children. She was a fine pianist herself, having been a student of Sergei Tarnowsky, the teacher of Vladimir Horowitz.

維基百科，自由的百科全書

Murray Perahia，1947年4月19日生，美國鋼琴家、指揮家。穆雷·佩拉西亞 (我喜歡叫他普萊亞) 出生於紐約布朗克斯的一個塞法迪猶太人家庭，其父親是一名裁縫，1935年從希臘塞薩洛尼基移民至美國而躲過大屠殺，因此佩拉西亞小時候也會說拉迪諾語。

佩拉西亞四歲時開始學彈鋼琴，17歲時入讀曼尼斯音樂學院，師從梅奇斯瓦夫霍爾紹夫斯基學習鋼琴、作曲和指揮。在暑期學校期間，他還曾跟隨魯道夫塞爾金、亞歷山大施耐德、帕布羅薩爾斯等音樂家學習，後來到柯蒂斯音樂學院擔任塞爾金的助手一年，鋼琴家霍洛維茨對佩拉西亞的藝術生涯也有舉足輕重的影響。佩拉西亞於1968年首度在卡內基大廳表演之後，1972年成為首個獲得利茲國際鋼琴比賽第一名的美國人。1989年，佩拉西亞首次在薩爾茨堡音樂節登台，與萊文指揮的維也納愛樂樂團合作了莫札特的第21鋼琴協奏曲，從此他多次做客薩爾茨堡音樂節，與阿巴多、索爾蒂、海汀克等指揮家合作。

1992年，佩拉西亞的拇指不慎被紙劃傷並發炎，職業生涯暫停了數年。佩拉西亞演繹的巴哈作品被當作教科書般的典範，尤其是哥德堡變奏曲的錄音。他先後獲得過三次葛萊美獎、兩次回聲音樂古典獎。2005年開始，佩拉西亞的手指舊疾復發，致使他再次閉關休息，減少演出和錄音的數量。除了獨奏，佩拉西亞也時常演奏室內樂，他還是聖馬丁室內樂團的首席客座指揮。佩拉西亞2004年3月因古典音樂方面的貢獻獲伊莉莎白二世頒發爵級司令勳章，2015年當選美國文理科學院院士。

Aleksandar Serdar 出生於貝爾格萊德 ，在諾維薩德完成學業後繼續在美國和意大利接受教育。

Serdare的鋼琴家發展首先受到了Sergio Perticaroli和Leon Fleisher的影響。 在青年鋼琴家傳統的發展道路之後，Aleksandar Serdar參加了眾多國際比賽，並獲得了高獎。 其中最重要的當然是特拉維夫的阿瑟魯賓斯坦，蒙扎里納薩拉加洛，韋爾切利，卡羅Zechhi。 這些獎項為他的國際職業生涯的成功開始做出了貢獻。

Aleksandar Serdar在歐洲，北美，巴西，秘魯，摩洛哥，黎巴嫩，以色列，泰姬陵和日本等幾乎所有國家都與管弦樂隊進行了獨奏音樂會。 他與貝爾格萊德，不來梅，索非亞，薩格勒布，都靈，慕尼黑，圖盧茲，里爾，聖何塞，斯洛文尼亞，德累斯頓等愛樂樂團合作演出。 他曾與Jean-Claude Casadesus，Jorg Peter Weigle，Emil Tabakov，Mandy Rodan，Marcello Viotti，Michael Plason等指揮人員合作過。 在過去的幾年裡，許多歐洲音樂會吸引了音樂會和音樂節的評論家和組織者的注意。 他在Chatelet劇院，盧浮宮禮堂，Tonhalle和蘇黎世，愛麗絲塔利音樂廳和紐約林肯中心等音樂廳充滿熱情，以及La Roque d'Antheron，南特的Folles Journeaus，Sully sur Loire ，聖 Riquier，Schleasu荷爾斯泰因和漢堡蒙彼利埃法國廣播節。

Aleksandar Serdar為EMI的唱片公司錄製了他的第一張光盤，該唱片收到了音樂雜誌的非凡評論。 Aleksandar Serdar以巴洛克式曲目發行了他在塞爾維亞PGP唱片公司的首張CD。自1999年以來，Serdar一直在塞爾維亞貝爾格萊德藝術學院任教，並當選為正教授。 自2006年以來，一直在Nis的藝術學院擔任教授。

薩悌：3首「裸體歌舞（3 Gymnopédies）」

艾瑞克‧阿爾弗雷德‧萊斯利‧薩悌（Eric Alfred Leslie Satie、1866 -1925）是法國作曲家。他常被稱為「音樂界的叛亂份子」或「音樂界的怪人」，並給西洋音樂極大的影響。德布西、拉威爾等人，都公開言明他們的許多作曲技法，是由自薩悌。薩替也影響其他印象主義作曲家。

就學巴黎音樂學院時，發表「對角線（Ogive）」「裸體歌舞（ Gymnopédie，一般都音譯為「吉諾佩第」）」「玄秘曲（Gnossienne，一般都音譯為「葛諾辛奴」）」等曲。他是巴黎音樂咖啡廳「黑貓」的常客，因而認識考克多（Jean Cocteau、1889 - 1963）、畢卡索等藝術家，也為音樂咖啡廳寫一些聲樂曲。這時期，他也譜寫使用反復同一音形的作曲手法的「家具音樂」等作品。

這「家具音樂」一詞，薩悌自己稱呼他全作品的傾向時，也用這個詞。他的演奏活動主要在酒坊，演奏的音樂不能吵到客人，要像家具，在那兒但不會吵。這種因素，對他來說是很重要的。從這種性質來看，他的音樂好像是「輕鬆音樂」（Easy Listening）的鼻祖。同時，他的作品常有奇怪的曲名，如「官僚的小奏鳴曲」，「給狗的臃腫的前奏曲」，「冷淡的小品」，「3首梨形的小品」，「乾燥胎兒」，「裸體小孩」等等。當初他是法國社會黨員，後來轉為法國共產黨員。他跟德布西過從甚密。