High school music composition is about 500 words.

I have always been interested in the relationship between artists and religions. Some people think that religion is the biggest culprit of art, some people think that without religion, there is no way to present the most transcendental soul of art, and some people claim that art can replace religion and realize its function. So I decided to study "religious music". My idea is that no matter what the relationship between religion and mind is, religious music definitely presents the truest state of mind.

In the process of studying religious music, I was particularly curious about Mozart, because when he was growing up in Salzburg, a religious town, he always made a living by writing religious music: the church organ was a religious ceremony, and Salzburg Catholicism showed great disrespect for Mozart, abandoned Mozart's talent, constantly restricted his creation, and even stipulated that Mozart's religious music could only be written as a small mass.

During this period, Mozart wanted to leave his post, and the bishop threatened Mozart by resigning as Mozart's father and putting his life in trouble. In order to leave the limited creative atmosphere and his artistic life in Salzburg, Mozart, accompanied by his mother, traveled all over the big cities he had visited, such as Munich, Osbourg, Manhan, Paris, London, The Hague, Paris, Lyon and Switzerland, in an attempt to find another beginning of his creative career. Instead of success, his mother died of fatigue. Mozart didn't want to spend time teaching music lessons to make a living, so he went back to Salzburg, endured humiliation and continued to be an organist, and finally broke with the bishop completely. Regarding the religious atmosphere in Salzburg, Mozart once wrote to a friend and said, "It's best not to be too' pious'! Therefore, Mozart's life has actually been struggling between the reality of his desire to create and maintain a family, the religious pressure of the overbearing bishop and his free artistic life.

Hidden Abruptness in Harmony

Portrait of Mozart at the age of six, when he was called a prodigy. The music of Mozart's father, leopold mozart, and Mozart's mother are generally lively and cheerful, which is totally out of tune with his life history. Anyone who studies the history of music knows that Mozart's musical life is very precocious. When he was only three or four years old, he fully demonstrated his musical talent. At the age of seven, he traveled around Europe as a child prodigy and played the piano. Mozart was deeply loved by princes and nobles at this time, and the joy and joy in his music were naturally understandable. This cheerful nature also deeply influenced Mozart's religious music. His earliest religious music, The Classic of Pity (KV33), was only 10 years old when it was written. The connotation of the sutra of mercy is "Send Jesus, my life", which should actually be a confession of profound faith, but this is by no means understandable by Mozart, who is regarded as a rare genius. But strangely, Mozart's music was still cheerful as an adult, and he was no longer loved by prodigies, and began to be depressed with the bishop of Salzburg. It is precisely because of this musical style that music interpreters began to pay attention to the hidden minor and dissonance chromatic scales that suddenly disappeared in Mozart's music. They all found that these notes were telling something other than joy, and Mozart immediately immersed them in joy and harmony after seemingly inadvertently stating these emotions. The most obvious manifestation of this music style is that after his mother died, Mozart had to return to Salzburg and become a more humble organist than before.

For example, Mozart's violin concerto in E major (KV364) was written in 1779, and his mother died. Mozart returned to Salzburg, still at odds with the Bishop (a year later, he finally broke up completely). In the always cheerful and brisk style, this piece of music is mixed with the fast-spinning rising sound of chromatic scale, giving people a feeling of anxiety, as if they want to leave and escape besides counting. But the appearance of this note is an abrupt transition, and its sudden appearance and disappearance are harmonious.

Despite this anxiety, the stern archbishop could not allow Mozart to put it into religious music. However, if we listen carefully to the solemn mass in C major (KV337) of religious music at the same time, the chromatic scale will rise in its pitying sutra, and suddenly there will be disharmony, especially because the harmony suddenly stops, giving people a very obvious sense of uncertainty. This expression of religious music is already very explicit.

No matter how Mozart negates depression and anxiety with joy in the end, the true heart presented by his music can still make listeners feel that Mozart longed for freedom and left, but he was not satisfied with the life situation at that time.

Mozart finally broke with the Archbishop at 178 1. It is said that the archbishop kicked his ass and kicked him out in public. Mozart told his father in his letter, "The Bishop said that no one who served him was worse than me. He also said other ugly things that I didn't want to repeat, and said that I was uneducated. Please don't lose heart and leave the archbishop. I think I'll start teaching good luck. From then on, Mozart began his more difficult and unstable life.

Confession of soul belief

After leaving Salzburg, Mozart composed his most famous mass in C minor (KV427) in 1783. This mass was not completed because there was no church ceremony, but as far as its completion is concerned, it ranks alongside Bach's mass in B minor and Beethoven's solemn mass as the three largest mass in the world.

The first "Pity Sutra" begins with the heavy theme motivation of musical instruments, and then musical instruments and vocal music present two different theme fugues, and vocal music is also divided into four fugues. From the beginning, the voice rose sharply, and then fell sharply, giving people a very dramatic excitement. The theme of instrumental music is repeated from beginning to end, as if to state a choice that you know the ending but can't stop, and also set off the four fugues of the voice, "Lord, I beg you to have mercy." The middle part of the lyrics, "Christ, please have mercy on me", is a solo of gentle prayer, sometimes a dialogue with gentle prayer, and sometimes an attachment to each other. As soon as the prayer wind passes, I will return to the fugue of instrumental music and human voice.

The emotion of Mass in C minor is definitely not cheerful, which is far from Carey, which he wrote when he was ten years old! But in Tenet's song, the fast version of the three cycles, how clearly the belief in God is expressed! Therefore, it is obvious that this mass is not a perfunctory request of the bishop at all, but a confession of personal true faith. What he wants to say is not a hypocritical religion, but a belief that can really comfort his short and painful earthly life. This kind of confession is definitely not acceptable to Salzburg, and it needs specifications and forms.

A quiet and peaceful smile

In the last five years of Mozart's life with his parents, Mozart's style changed again, getting rid of the occasional anxiety and returning to a calm and carefree style. For example, the piano concerto No.27 (KV595) in the year of his death, its smooth notes are definitely no longer just a sense of pleasure because of the occasional slight tone shift, but it returns to major, or the elegant slow version is not submerged in emotion, and still makes people share his calm without waves. This is definitely far beyond his early "joy" realm, and it is a kind of rest in suffering.

In the year of Mozart's death, he seemed to want to finish all the unfinished work, but he still kept a lot of creation in his illness. One of them is probably the religious music "Ave Verum Corpus" (kV 618) written for the Eucharist, which is simply unimaginable detachment and calm. The four harmonies tell the love of Christ slowly and beautifully. It is unimaginable that Mozart was still struggling when he was dying.

Mozart had a conversation with the captain of Thomas Choir in Bixi two years before his death, and he also mentioned it when he wrote to his father later. He said to the captain, "I don't think you can understand the meaning of' Christ, Lamb of God, you have washed away the sins of the world, please give us peace'. I was educated in Jesuits for 12 years since I was a child. He attached great importance to Mozart's religious education. ) I walked into the mysterious temple of religion, eagerly looking forward to the beginning of mass, but I didn't know what I wanted ... Now, after Lu Yong's death, all this resurfaced and deeply touched my heart. I am happy to compose music for these words that I have heard thousands of times. Mozart's disagreement with the bishop in those days was obviously related to the prejudice of the bishop-how can an active, funny musician who always tells dirty jokes understand the truth in theory and practice? But Mozart never had anything to do with politics. He never knew that he would experience the French Revolution at the end of his life, but he wrote a "Figaro Wedding" that mocked the powerful and helped all civilians, so that the nobles alienated him and deepened his poverty. When the Bishop rebuked him for being uneducated and a bad guy, he joined the "* * * Aid Society" in the last ten years of his life with the concept of equality, helping the weak and the poor ..... All this shows that Mozart did not have no faith, but could not associate his faith with the religious atmosphere of rigid formal dogma and the religious atmosphere of chatting only in the upper class. This is the main reason why he was trapped in Salzburg, and then he was poor and sick.

Mozart's manuscript Requiem (KV626) died after his mother worked hard for him. Although there was obvious sadness in his creation for a while, he wrote to his father and said, "I obey the will of God." When his father was dying and couldn't get comfort from his elders in his poor life, Mozart said to his father, "I will always be grateful to my creator and sincerely wish everyone around me to be as happy as me." Finally, when thinking about death, he wrote to his father: "Since death is the real ultimate goal of our life, it is no longer a frightening thing for me, but something that makes me feel peaceful and relieved. I thank God for giving me a chance to know death. God let me know that death is the key to true happiness. After reading these heartfelt confessions of faith, it is not difficult to understand that Mozart left Salzburg in the middle of his creation. Although he suffered serious setbacks in life and had unexpected talents, he still moved towards peace and happiness in the middle and late period of his creation. This kind of calmness and happiness is by no means ignorance of the world, so it tends to be melancholy or full of a sense of calmness. Finally, in the face of death, it is possible to create the natural joy of KV6 18!

The relationship between religion and art is by no means that religion stifles art-although formalism does stifle art, Mozart once angrily said to his friends, "It is good to be a man without being too' pious'!" But formalization and dogmatism are by no means the original intention of religion.

When we listen to Mozart's music, we will experience a kind of transcendental emotion that does not come from ourselves, a kind of "unspeakable mystery", so some people say that Mozart's music is "transcendental music", but in the final analysis, it is because Mozart broke away from his own life and realized a dimension of transcendental emotion. Therefore, we can conclude that it is not art that can replace religion, but the real experience and depth of religion, which endows art with extraordinary connotation and thus goes beyond it!