This piece of music is written in the form of a sonata. A major; There is a wonderful 3/4-beat allegro lead singer in front. It starts with the trumpet and the horn playing the winning trumpet, and the timpani sounds like a holiday tribute. After a short transition of bass stringed instruments, the horn of victory sounded again. At this time, other wind instruments also joined in and developed in a way of harmony conversion and out of tune, just like the crowds marching in festivals, with colorful flags flying and dazzling.
After entering the demonstration department, the beat changed from 3/4 beat to 2/2 beat, and the speed was accelerated. Music changed from Allegro to Allegro. Clarinet plays a lively theme, which has the characteristics of dance music and expresses people's happy mood. Violin retells this theme. In progress, the crisp knocking sound of triangle iron was added. Make the dance music more intense. Later, the violin quickly played a phrase that rolled up and down, the trumpet was interspersed with the sound of "Shuang Tu", and the theme turned to trombone and cello playing. The atmosphere is very warm.
The theme of the sub-part is E major, 2/2 beats, as wide as a song. At first, it was presented with horns and cellos, just like Russian baritone singers singing. In sharp contrast with the main theme, and then turn this beautiful main theme to the violin and viola to play, which is more touching and full of pride and happiness. At this time, the woodwind instrument is played back and forth with a short rising tone, and then the strings are gently plucked, leading the music to the unfolding part, depicting the beautiful scene of the China Lantern Festival and the festival night. The clarinet played a cheerful tune, as if calling people to the party. Then, woodwind instruments gradually joined, depicting more and more people gathering. The mood of music is getting more and more excited, and the sound is getting more and more intense, which finally merges into a magnificent scene of the ocean of joy.
The main theme of the reproduction department was originally played with strings. But this is not a complete reproduction of the theme. This is just a motive. There have been some changes in the second half of the year. The same is true of the repetition of themes and subtitles in the presentation department. This is a feature of Shostakovich's creation. Shostakovich doesn't like to repeat the previous phrases without changing a note, and even rarely uses the method of continuous modeling. Some people compare Shostakovich's music to the fact that the running river flows farther and farther and never returns to the old place, and the same is true here.
The theme of the sub-voice is not to copy the melody of the presentation part, but to play it with a wind instrument. Nevertheless, Shostakovich strictly abides by the principle of sonata form in his writing skills. Here, he unified the tonality of the sub-theme to the main theme. Play for wind music first, then retell and develop it with violin. The second half turned around in tonality and the atmosphere was warm.
The ending is not long, but the theme and subtitle have developed again. Finally, an ode is introduced, and the trumpet sound in the introduction appears here again. They mixed together and formed the climax of the whole song. Then speed up and end the whole song in an extremely warm and jubilant atmosphere.
When Shostakovich wrote this "Festival Overture", it was the peak of his creation. By this time, he had composed ten symphonies and many excellent works. Because of his great achievements in creation, the Soviet government awarded him the title of people's artist in this year; He also won two Lenin medals and a labor red flag medal. Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906 was born in St. Petersburg on September 25th, and 1975 died in Moscow on August 9th. He is a famous musician in the former Soviet Union and one of the most important musicians in the world in the 20th century. His father is a chemical engineer and a music lover. My mother is a talented pianist and Shostakovich's first piano teacher. 19 19 shostakovich graduated from a private music primary school and entered the Petrograd Conservatory of Music. Later, he began to study composition. Since he was a student, Shostakovich has been doing piano accompaniment for silent films. Shostakovich graduated from 1923 and 1925 respectively. His graduation work "The First Symphony" became a milestone in his music career and attracted the attention of the international music community. In the first symphony, we can see that the composer inherited the musical styles of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Limsky Kosakov and Musorgskiy. Nevertheless, it embodies its own style and unprecedented characteristics. His works are positive and full of feelings; In those years, Shostakovich often performed as a piano player. He also won the honorary certificate of the first Chopin International Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland. This is also an important moment for him to choose a career: he must choose between a composer and a pianist. During the period after composing the first symphony, Xiao tried various new musical techniques. During this period, he composed Piano Sonata No.1 (1926), Gift of October (1927) and Symphony No.3 Labor Day (1929).
With the emergence of new art forms, especially social satires, Shostakovich also created many films and drama music. Such as the new Babylon of 1929, the Jinshan of 193 1, and the Bug of 1927. 1928 The Nose adapted from Nikolai Gogol and 1932 The Lady Macbeth adapted from Leskov are two representative works. Different from leskov's original works, Shostakovich highlights the female nature under unfair social conditions in his plays. Composers therefore call their operas "tragic satire". In the opera Nose, he added elements of Russian romances and songs sung by Manson to Russian grotesque dramas. 1934, the play premiered in Leningrad and Moscow under the name of Katerina Izz Merova. Since then, it has been staged in theaters in North America and Europe. Among them, there are 36 performances in Leningrad, 94 performances in Moscow, performances in Stockholm, Prague, London, Zurich, Copenhagen and other places. This work has become one of Xiao's important achievements, and has also made people all over the world appreciate his musical genius.
1936 1, Stalin was very unhappy after watching the opera Katerina Izz Merova. Pravda immediately published an editorial article entitled "Chaos Replaces Music", which has long restricted the development of Soviet music. A few days later, Pravda published another music review entitled "The Fallacy of Ballet", criticizing Shostakovich's ballet "Clean Stream" mercilessly.
Following the Pravda article, most of Shostakovich's works before 1936 have almost disappeared from the list of Soviet literary performances. The premiere of Symphony No.4, originally scheduled for the autumn of 1936, was also cancelled (it didn't premiere until 196 1). It was not until 1962 that Katerina Izz Meyerova resumed her performance. Apart from the first symphony and a few small tunes, the works created by/kloc-0 in the 1920s were not staged until the mid-1960s, and the opera "Nose" was "rediscovered" in 1974.
The fourth, fifth and sixth symphonies composed in 1934, 1937 and 1939 respectively marked a new stage in Shostakovich's creative career.
With the development of symphony, Shostakovich gives chamber music more and more important significance.
1934, he composed a lively and magnificent sonata for cello and piano. 1938 and 1940, he composed String Quartet No.1 and String and Piano Quintet successively, which became important works in his musical career.
The seventh symphony, written in 194 1, was written for the Great Patriotic War. The score was sent to the United States and premiered by conductor toscanini, which caused a sensation all over the world. So is the eighth symphony.
1948 February, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union * * * (Bolshevik) announced a resolution on Moulaye's opera "Great Friendship". Composers such as Shostakovich, prokofiev and Khachaturian have been severely criticized, arguing that these "formalism" composers run counter to the artistic taste of the Soviet people. The media has also set off a new wave of criticism of Shostakovich, which is more violent than that of 1936. Shostakovich, who was conquered by power, "admitted his mistake" and successively created the oratorio Song of the Forest (1949), and made music for a series of historical and war films, which made his situation better. At the same time, he also created works with high artistic standards: violin concerto No.1 (1948), quartet No.4 and quartet No.5 (1949, 1952) and piano prelude and fugue No.24 (195 1 year).
Shostakovich made an interesting demonstration of how to use the heritage of classical music to create works full of popular singing. For example, the 11th and 12th symphonies "1905" and "19 17" are full of folk music and singing. The 13th Symphony is based on the poem of the poet Evtushenko, which is the continuation and development of Beethoven. Shostakovich himself said that the 14th Symphony (1969) borrowed Musorgskiy's thought of "death song and dance".
Stepan Razin's Death Penalty (1964), a symphonic poem, is another important milestone of Shostakovich and the pinnacle of his creation.
The fourteenth symphony organically combines indoor vocal music, indoor instrumental music and symphony, and the lyrics are taken from the poems of different poets in different countries, thus creating works with profound philosophical thoughts and lyrical colors.
The Fifteenth Symphony (197 1) is the end of Shostakovich's creative career, which combines the essence of Shostakovich's various creative periods.