Weber Part 1

Comments on Weber’s Andante and Hungarian Rondo,
1. General Observations
By Terry B. Ewell

With excerpts from the 1984 television broadcast with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra; Vilem Sokol, conducting. BDP#189. www.2reed.net/bdp.

评论韦伯的行板和匈牙利回旋曲1. Terry B. Ewell 的評論。
摘自 1984 年与西雅图青年交响乐团一起播出的电视节目； Vilem Sokol，指挥。BDP#189。 www.2reed.net/bdp。

Carl Maria von Weber.

卡尔·玛丽亚·冯·韦伯。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber

History of the piece 这件作品的历史

Welcome to my comments on this exciting composition by Carl Marie von Weber. I’m Terry Ewell and this is one of my favorite compositions for the bassoon. I first performed the work as a student with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Later, as a professional, I gave performances in Hong Kong, Washington State, and Changsha, China. In 2017 I will be performing the work with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Julien Benichou.

The Andante and Hungarian Rondo (Andante e Rondo Ungarese) was first written in 1809 for Carl Maria von Weber’s brother Fritz, who played viola. Later, in 1813, the work was arranged for Georg Friedrich Brandt. Although the bassoon version was penned later, it actually received publication first in 1816. Other than adding measures 56-59 to the bassoon version, the two original versions of the composition are nearly identical.

It is safe to say that the composition plays a far more important role in the bassoon repertoire than it does in the viola repertoire.

1.    欢迎来到我对卡尔·玛丽·冯·韦伯这部激动人心的作品的评论。我是 Terry Ewell，这是我最喜欢的巴松管作品之一。我第一次在西雅图交响乐团担任学生时表演了这部作品。后来，作为专业人士，我在香港、华盛顿州和中国长沙演出。 2017 年，我将在 Julien Benichou 的指揮下与中亞特蘭大交响乐团合作演出。

2.    行板和匈牙利回旋曲 (Andante e Rondo Ungarese) 最初是在 1809 年为演奏中提琴的卡尔·玛丽亚·冯·韦伯的兄弟弗里茨而写的。后来，在 1813 年，这作品被改編给 Georg Friedrich Brandt大管演奏家所演奏。虽然大管版本是后期写的，但它实际上是在 1816 年首次出版。除了在大管版本中增加了 56-59 小节之外，这首曲子的两个原始版本几乎相同。

3.    可以肯定地说，该作品在大管曲目中的作用远比在中提琴曲目中的作用重要。

Versions of the composition [作品的一些不同版本]
I recommend that you purchase the Universal Edition of the composition which was published in 1992. William Waterhouse has carefully examined the earliest sources for this publication. I did not have this edition available for my 1984 performance so there will be some differences between the recording at that time and my current performance of the work.
The edition on imslp.org has the advantage of being available for free. However, this version contains editor’s additions that depart from the original version.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Andante_e_rondo_ongarese,_Op.35_(Weber,_Carl_Maria_von) Publisher Information: Paris: Evette & Schaeffer, 1922.

To avoid any copyright violations I will use the imslp version, which is public domain, in these videos. However, I will edit the music with knowledge of the Universal Edition and also include my performance suggestions.

4. 我建议您购买 1992 年出版的该作品的通用版。William Waterhouse 仔细检查了该出版物的最早来源。我在 1984 年的表演中没有这个版本，所以当时的录音和我目前的表演会有一些差异。 imslp.org 上具有免费提供的版本。但是，此版本包含与原始版本不同的编辑添加内容。

5. 为避免任何侵犯版权的行为，我将在这些视频中使用公共领域的 imslp 版本。不过，我会用通用版的知识来编辑音乐，也会包括我的演奏建议。

Dissertation [論文]
I am delighted to recommend to you a dissertation by Melissa Kritzer on the work. It is available for free on the Internet.

“Discovering the ‘Hungarian’ in Andante and Rondo: A Historical Approach to a Standard Bassoon Solo” (Dissertation, Michigan State University, n.d.) http://nycbassoon.com/dissertation.pdf

I will be referring to this dissertation many times in the three videos in this series.

6. 我很高兴向您推荐 Melissa Kritzer 关于这部作品的论文。它可以在網路上免费获得。

“发现行板和回旋曲中的‘匈牙利’：标准巴松管独奏的历史方法”（论文，密歇根州立大学，日期不详）http://nycbassoon.com/dissertation.pdf

7. 我将在本系列的三个视频中多次提及这篇论文。

Articulations [音樂演奏法]
Composers of wind music in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provide little indication of articulation in their music. Where it is provided, we should do it. But most often the determination of what to slur was left up to the performer. This allows for customization of articulation for the instruments and also for the performers’ taste.

My former colleague Rudolf Haken shows many slurs are included in his version of the viola solo. Just compare this to the lack of slurs provided by Weber in the bassoon part.

8. 18 世纪末和 19 世纪初的管乐作曲家在他们的音乐中几乎没有提供音樂演奏法的迹象。在哪里提供它，我们就应该这样做。但大多数情况下，要添加圓滑線什么是由表演者决定的。这允许該器樂演奏者要如何定制他們的演奏法，也可以满足表演者的品味。

9. 我的前同事鲁道夫·哈肯（Rudolf Haken）表示，他的中提琴独奏版本中包含许多圓滑線。只需将此与韦伯在大管部分提供的缺乏连线进行比较即可。

Character of the Piece 「本曲風格特色」
Have you wondered what makes the work “Hungarian?” Melissa Kritzer writes:
Today, style hongrois refers to the specific musical language used by Western composers from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth-centuries to evoke the performances of Hungarian Gypsies. P. 35

Dr. Kritzer provides further details for the rhythms in the work that evoke this Hungarian flavor. Most of these stylistic references are found in the Rondo movement as noted on page 39 of her dissertation. (see the video for the examples with music)

In addition, other aspects of the Andante refer to musical idioms outside of the Common Practice, European musical traditions. I will discuss this more in the next video.

10.    你有没有想过是什么让这部作品“匈牙利”？ Melissa Kritzer 写道：今天，风格 hongrois 指的是 18 世纪中期到 20 世纪初西方作曲家用来唤起匈牙利吉普赛人表演的特定音乐语言。第 35 页。

11.    Kritzer 博士为唤起这种匈牙利风味的作品的节奏提供了更多细节。如她的论文第 39 页所述，这些风格参考中的大多数都可以在迴旋曲樂章中找到。（有关音乐示例，请参见视频）

12.    此外，行板的其他方面指的是欧洲音乐传统的共同实践之外的音乐用语。我将在下一个视频中对此进行更多讨论。